On Mon, 12 May 2003 15:48:42 -0400
John Culleton
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. I've seen discussions of "fonts suitable for low-res display", generally in the context of web browsers. But we also have the factor of "what does Acrobat render nicely?" which is a different topic, of which I'm ignorant. I use the free MS Georgia truetype font in my browser and it works pretty well; the numerals are old-stype by default. Rather complete set of glyphs but no kerning. As an experiment I installed it into the tex directories using the truetype procedure described on my help page. Looks nice; maybe better than the other free fonts. I'll post a sample if anyone wants to see it. I checked the MS site for licensing info but was a bit overwhelmed. "Embedding is encouraged" but I didn't see a definite "yes, it's legal." I'd check more closely if I wanted to use it for a public project. Looking at Luc_Devroye's site (http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/fonts.html) it is clear that most of the world's free fonts are in truetype. -Bill -- Sattre Press Tales of War http://sattre-press.com/ by Lord Dunsany info@sattre-press.com http://tow.sattre-press.com/