Re: [sdcc-devel] fonts and documentation

[Michael H. <mic...@ju...>]

I had the opposite problem.  pdf's generated in Linux looked fine under gv
or kghostview, but were all blocky under Windows.

-- Michael

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 da...@kd... wrote:

> >> I hate the bitmap fonts in the pdf file while viewing it in acrobat. This is
> >> a known issue but everytime I try to fix this in my lyx configuration files
> >> it all get's messed up and I have to remove and reinstall all the FCKNG
> >> rpm's, don't know why. Someone?
> >
> > I had this same problem, and it's related to your dvi to pdf converter.
> > One of them uses font names that have no Windows equivalents, requiring it
> > to fall back on the included bitmaps, where another uses a font that
> > has an equivalent on Windows.  I wish I could remember which was which.
> >
> > -- Michael
> >
>
> I have not tried to render pdf's... although I get good results in X.
> Copy any Windows fonts dir to some media and then into
> /usr/share/fonts/TrueType.  Do a mkfontdir in the directory.
> In /etc/X11/fs, edit config and add the path to the TrueType dir.
> Exit out of Xwindows and restart the font server, or simply reboot..
> (but that would be *too* close to a win32ism.)
>
> Having done the above, I have access to all those fonts.  Maybe lyx
> will also.
>
> --
> Dave
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