General ⇒ PDF output quality is very poor

[xlynx3]

Hi all,
I'm using WinEdt and integrated PdfLatex for creating pdf files.
I was using Acrobat Reader 6 and everything was perfectly good. I upgraded it to Acrobat Reader 9 then the pdf documents quality become very poor. They're too faded/worn. Has anyone experienced a problem like this before?

[xlynx3]

i have figure out that the problem is caused by the additional language packages.

if i use like this, text quality become good.

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{caption}

but if i use the code below, it becomes very poor.

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[turkish]{babel}
\usepackage[latin5]{inputenc}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{caption}

How can i fix this problem..

[phi]

You need an outline font that supports the T1 encoding, for example Latin Modern. Modern distributions should have Latin Modern already installed. In that case, simply add

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\usepackage{lmodern}

at the beginning of the preamble.

[kaiserkarl13]

As mentioned in the previous post, this is a font problem. My guess is that you don't have the default (Computer Modern) fonts in the T1 encoding (who does?), so it uses bitmapped versions instead. These invariably look like garbage in Adobe Reader.

There are two packages that may alleviate this problem (if not solve it): ae and aecompl. These packages effectively substitute out the bitmapped T1 fonts for their equivalent OT1 fonts (when available) and use the bitmapped fonts whenever they don't have a glyph for the symbol in OT1.

I hope that helps!

[phi]

Since the appearance of the cm-super and Latin Modern fonts, the ae package can be considered obsolete. These fonts (especially Latin Modern) offer high-quality alternatives to Computer Modern covering T1 and many other encodings, which renders the original Computer Modern fonts and the ae package unnecessary.

[xlynx3]

thanks for your replies. I think this was a weird problem but the latex-community is perfect too
"lmodern" package solved the issue. Thanks again

[daleif]

This is usually when people does not do a full installation of MikTeX (or perhaps TeXLive).

This is why I always tell people to install everything, even though you might noe need it all, it is still better to be safe.

I have no idea why the minimal MikTeX does not include CM-super when it is a well known fact that this leeds to bad looking PDF files.

Anyway, the lmodern fonts will replace the CM fonts as the base LaTeX font at some point in the future, solving the problem for good.