Re: [NTG-context] OT Best font for online viewing.

On Tuesday 13 May 2003 09:50 am, Bill McClain wrote:

On Mon, 12 May 2003 15:48:42 -0400

John Culleton wrote:

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I know Lucida Bright is the favorite font for on-line use in pragma-nl. But is there a regular (like, free) Adobe Font that looks OK when used with Acrobat Reader? Or is there some other setup improvement I need to make?

Charter, Bookman and Utopia are free and are worth a try. I agree that Acrobat doesn't render Palatino very nicely at small sizes. You've done everything correctly in ConTeXt, and I'm sure it would print out nicely on a high-res printer.

But of course the printer is not the target in this case; the online viewer using AR is. For a temporary solution I have fallen back to (drumroll) the default CM which in pdftex is the Type 1 conversion thereof. It is a bit spidery but it is handsomer than the Palladio in the viewer window. As time permits I will play with some others per your and others suggestions. For all flavors of TeX fonts are the last major stumbling block. As we chip away at that problem we render Tex/Context to be more practical for the many who spend significant bucks on Pagemaker, InDesign, Quark, Framemaker, Ventura et al. TFYH John Culleton ____________________________________________________________ Free 20MB Web Site Hosting and Personalized E-mail Service! Get It Now At Doteasy.com http://www.doteasy.com/et/