General ⇒ Why type 3 fonts with \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}?

[PaulPic]

Hi,

I'm new to LaTeX, but I understood that with

%% deutsche Anpassung %%
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

I should get type 1 fonts compiling directly to pdf (LaTeX=>PDF).

Instead, I get type 3 fonts, known to look extremely ugly being bitmaps.

What is wrong? I searched the web and read for hours only to learn that it should work as expected...

Thanks a lot!

Paul

[Alex B.]

The standard "Computer Modern" fonts have no free "European" Type 1 equivalent for your T1 font encoding. Possible alternatives are the "CM-Super" or "Latin Modern" package. After "CM-Super" is properly installed the Type 1 fonts will automatically be used. For using "Latin Modern" you have to call \usepackage{lmodern} in your preamble.