NAECON 08 Type 3 Fonts
Type
3 fonts are bit-mapped fonts as opposed to scalable vector based fonts
such as Type 1 or TrueType. The problem with using Type 3 fonts is that
they render a very poor screen viewing experience when others are viewing
your file (very blurry text). Since your paper will be published to CDROM
as well as other web based rendering platforms, it is extremely important
for you to produce a clean copy of your file using little or no Type 3
fonts.
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If you are using LaTeX on Unix, the problem is that, by default,
LaTeX uses Type 3 fonts. Since most users have a tendency to use
the default settings, then Type 3 fonts will be used by default.
Therefore, if the first line in the LaTeX file is something like: \documentstyle[10pt,psfig,twocolumn]{article}
then Type 3 fonts will be used. But if you modify this line as follows:\documentstyle[10pt,times,psfig,twocolumn]{article}
then Times fonts will be used (which are not Type 3). If there are
mathematical formulas in the text, it is better to use:\documentstyle[10pt,times,mathptm,psfig,twocolumn]{article}
Afterwards, you just have to generate the dvi file from file.tex (laTeX
file), the PS file (dvips -o file.ps file), and the PDF (ps2pdf file.ps).
After changing the fonts, you must review your paper very carefully
to ensure that it still meets layout and page limit requirements.
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You may also want to check
here to read about generating high quality PDF output from LaTeX
or TeX. Alternatively, you should consult the documentation of your
LaTeX system on how to include Type 1 fonts. |
ps2pdf Conversion Problems: |
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Note that the ps2pdf command (based on GhostScript) may
not preserve embedded Type 1 fonts. If you have access to Adobe
Acrobat for distilling your PostScript to PDF conversion, this would
be the preferred method. You can use Acrobat
Reader to see if you have any Type 3 fonts embedded using this
menu sequence: File > Document Properties > Fonts or you can
use Ctrl-Alt-F. Although, it should be fairly obvious since Type
3 fonts look very blurry on screen. |
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