General ⇒ Why is my letters pixilated in PDF

[Medova]

Does anyone know what the reason for pixilated letters in PDF could be?

I am using the same preamble and master document and the same programs for compiling and viewing as the other members of my study group and the letters in thir PDF-files remain sharp at 6400% zoom.
We are using TeXnicCenter, MikTeX and Adope Acrobat 8.0 pro

I don't get any warnings about fonts when compiling to PDF. But it's not possible to copy/paste text from one of my PDF-files.

It must be some setting along the way from LaTeX to PS-file to PDF, but I don't know what that could be. Please help

I just tried to convert one of the others PS-files to PDF - and that looks fine, so it must be in the creation of the PS-file from LaTeX.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Medova,

welcome to the board!
Do you use T1 font encoding, i.e. do you have

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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

in your preamble? In that case use a T1 encoded font, like Latin Modern:

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\usepackage{lmodern}

or, if you want to use the standard Computer Modern fonts, install the cm-super package by the MiKTeX package manager, it contains T1 encoded Computer Modern fonts that will be used automatically.

Stefan

[Medova]

You just qualified for "Hero of the day"
we were using:

\usepackage{t1enc}

but have now installed the cm-super package. And that works - couldn't have done that without you.

Thx.