General ⇒ [SOLVED] Text not perfectly black

[Vedyimyn]

Good evening everyone! This is my first post here

I've used LaTeX for two months. I really like it. The only thing I cannot stand with is the readability of the text. It is, let me say, "less black" than Word document exported to pdf. Here is the example:

The left one is the LaTeX one, while the second is written in OpenOffice and exported to PDF. After printing it is even easier to spot that something is wrong with this text and it is not due to the printer.

Here is the code of above LaTeX document:

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
Lorem ipsum... %and so on, et caetera
\end{document}

I use TeX Studio on Debian Linux Jessie. I will really appreciate any help.

[alainremillard]

It is a matter of font. Latex use computer modern roman as oppose to OpenOffice Times New Roman. There is no Times New Roman in latex, one of the options is the mathptmx package.

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\begin{document}
Lorem ipsum... %and so on, et caetera
\end{document}

For more information on Times New Roman and other options, see
http://www.latex-community.org/forum/vi ... 48&t=11596

[Vedyimyn]

Thank You, it helped Initially I got some trouble (missing font error) but after installing a package
"texlive-fonts-recommended" everything works fine.