Text Formatting ⇒ increasing of font size in output document

[apkrishna]

I would like to know how I can get the font size of the pdf output in LATEX. Presently the font size is 8. I have increased in the terminal to 12, but the font size of output document is still 8.It is too small to read.

[Johannes_B]

Hi and welcome, i am not sure what you mean. Usually, the base size is given as an option to the class, \documentclass[10pt]{article}, \documentclass[8pt]{extbook} or \documentclass[fontsize=16pt]{scrreprt}.

Can you please be more specific?

[apkrishna]

I wish to have the document of larger size font (say 16).

[Johannes_B]

Use \documentclass[fontsize=16pt]{scrreprt} or define a new font size file as described in How to work with larger fonts.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Welcome to the forum!

It would be good if we would know your document class, so we could suggest the best way.

Personally, I would use

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\documentclass[fontsize=16pt]{scrartcl}

or scrreprt or scrbook. The main point is, using a flexible KOMA-Script class (name scr...) and the option fontsize=16pt. You could use other sizes, even em, ex, cm or mm at this option. KOMA-Script is very flexible.

There's also the extsizes bundle, which you can use like

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\documentclass[17pt]{extarticle}

It works like old base classes. 16pt is not available there though.

Stefan

[Johannes_B]

Stefan, as em and ex are relative sizes, dependant on the current font size, this will be a troublemaker.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

em and ex are relative sizes, dependant on the current font size

Very good to point that out! So it's better to use other absolute size units, such as pt, bp, cm, mm, ... interesting to test it though.

Stefan

[apkrishna]

Hai Stefan, I am new to LATEX. But excited by its power. I am using \documentclass [10pt]{revtex4}.
What I did - introduced the command \Large after the \begin{document}, it worked.
Is it OK? Wish to know your comments.

[Johannes_B]

REVTeX is for submission of documents to the American Physical Society onlly; they will postprocess your document to their guidelines, most likely removing the change. Why should one article in a journal be printed larger than any others?