Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ URW Garamond bad quality in PDF

[Illuminatiii]

Hey Guys,

I have a fairly anoying problem. I have installed the URW Garamond fonts and want to use them for my master thesis.

However when I compile the document they appear unsharp and fuzzy. I have read a lot of PDF's with the URW Garamond font, and they dont seem to have this problem at all.

Any ideas are more than welcome!

PS. The fonts seems to look alright when the PDF is printed on paper, but I need to deliver a PDF version as well.

Also a image attached from the PDF.

[kaiserkarl13]

You are probably getting Type 3 fonts instead of Type 1 fonts---please post a minimal working example and we might be able to determine why.

[Illuminatiii]

Here is a mwe of all the packages I use

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\documentclass[pdftex,10pt,b5paper,twoside]{book}

% ---------- Loading packages ---------------


\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[urw-garamond]{mathdesign}
\usepackage[inner=35mm,outer=25mm,tmargin=27mm,bmargin=30mm]{geometry}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage[version=3,arrows=pgf]{mhchem}
\usepackage[tophrase=dash,repeatunits=false,trapambigrange=false]{siunitx}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{chngcntr}
\usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes,arrows}
\usepackage[]{caption}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage[square, numbers]{natbib}
\usepackage{datatool}
\usepackage[breakall]{truncate}

% ---- Universal Settings for the Master Thesis ----

\captionsetup{labelfont=bf, margin=0px}

% ---- removing page numbering from blank pages ----

\makeatletter
\def\cleardoublepage{\clearpage\if@twoside \ifodd\c@page\else
\hbox{}
\vspace*{\fill}
\begin{center}
This page intentionally contains only this sentence.
\end{center}
\vspace{\fill}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\newpage
\if@twocolumn\hbox{}\newpage\fi\fi\fi}
\makeatother




\begin{document}

\chapter{URW Garamond Example}

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\end{document}

[kaiserkarl13]

It works for me (with no Type 3 fonts or graininess). I did have to comment out mhchem, datatool, and siunitx to get it to work. (Note also that you loaded mhchem TWICE....)

URW-garamond-example.png (54.3 KiB) Viewed 5305 times

I have the following files in $TEXMF/fonts/type1/urw/garamond:
ugmm8a.pfb ugmmi8a.pfb ugmr8a.pfb ugmri8a.pfb
ugmm8a.pfm ugmmi8a.pfm ugmr8a.pfm ugmri8a.pfm

Is that where your fonts are installed?

[Illuminatiii]

Hello,

Yes I have installed all the files you mentioned in that folder, I have also done all of the steps in the readme file provided at CTAN for the font.

However it might be some problems with some of the other packages I use, as the datatool and siunitx package. I have tried to make a document only containing plain text and then it works (see attached).

Any ideas? It is not critical that I use the font, however it would make the thesis look a lot better imo.

[kaiserkarl13]

Have you confirmed that it's one of those two packages?

I can't use siunitx, since it requires LaTeX3 features that aren't available on my version. I had trouble getting datatool to work, too, but when I ignored the error that it made, I still didn't get grainy fonts.