General ⇒ Problems with Times font

[esther]

Dear all,

I have a problem with Times (and maybe Optima). As my body text should be in Times, I added the following command:

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\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{ptm} 

The titles (which are all in sf format) should be in Optima, so I added the following command:

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\renewcommand{\sfdefault}{uop}

However, according to the printer, the Times font is replaced by another font in the generated PDF file. The pdf file lists the following fonts among others:

CMEX10
CMMI10
CMMI16
CMMI8
...
CMR10
CMR6
CMR7
CMR8
CMR9
CMSY8
CMSY9
CMTI17
CMT19
LASY10
Helvetica: real police= ArialMT [I don't know why Helvetica is called here]
NimbusRomNO9L-Medi [I don't know to which font corresponds this]
NimbusRomNO9L-Medital
NimbusRomNO9L-Regu
...
stmary10

Does somebody have an idea of why Times is not included? What should I do to correct the problem?
Thanks a lot

esther

[phi]

The CM... fonts are the Computer Modern fonts, the default fonts of LaTeX. Perhaps there are used in some formula, since the math fonts don't respect the \rmdefault setting. The Times font has to be provided by any PostScript implementation, but in practice it is often replaced by a font that looks similar. Times and Optima are commercial fonts, and unless you bought them, you cannot use them. So they get replaced by fonts that are available on your system, in this case presumably Arial and Nimbus Roman, a Times clone.
Normally, you should change fonts by including a package belonging to the font, not by redeclaring the font default commands yourself. For Times you would use the mathptmx package. Of course, you still need the original Times font if you want to use it.