Hans Hagen writes:
Philip TAYLOR wrote:
Typesetting the 2008 Christmas Letter (in Computer Modern Roman 10pt scaled \magstep 1}, I was dismayed to find that both on-screen and on paper the font is depressingly light; on a bran(d) new HP CP1215 colour laserprinter, the top of the lower-case "s" definitely breaks up. I assume that this arises from the Bluesky type-1 outlines that PdfTeX presumably uses, but I wondered if there is any way for PdfTeX to artificially increase the weight (well, really the stroke width, but I know that's asking too much !).
% low level hack because PT does not use context and therefore % cannot use the high level interface:
Well, the easiest solution is to use another font. I suppose that Phil insists on Computer Modern in order to honor Knuth's work. But if (and only if) you exactly know that the only output device is an HP CP1215 colour laserprinter, there is no reason to use so-called "scalable fonts" at all. You can instruct metafont to create optimized bitmap fonts for exactly that output device. And as far as I remember there is even a variable called "blacker"... Regards, Reinhard -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-3373112 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:reinhard.kotucha@web.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------