Document Classes ⇒ memoir | Chapter Number printed at low Resolution

[leogas]

Hello,

I have a problem with the Memoir document class.
I created a document based on the file "daleif1-style.tex" generated by the Memoir tex file.

Here's the tex file:

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\documentclass{memoir}
%\let\STARTCODE\relax 
%\let\STOPCODE\relax 
%\STARTCODE
\usepackage{color,calc,graphicx,soul,fourier}
\definecolor{nicered}{rgb}{.647,.129,.149}
\makeatletter
\newlength\dlf@normtxtw
\setlength\dlf@normtxtw{\textwidth}
\def\myhelvetfont{\def\sfdefault{mdput}}
\newsavebox{\feline@chapter}
\newcommand\feline@chapter@marker[1][4cm]{%
  \sbox\feline@chapter{%
    \resizebox{!}{#1}{\fboxsep=1pt%
      \colorbox{nicered}{\color{white}\bfseries\sffamily\thechapter}%
    }}%
  \rotatebox{90}{%
    \resizebox{%
      \heightof{\usebox{\feline@chapter}}+\depthof{\usebox{\feline@chapter}}}%
    {!}{\scshape\so\@chapapp}}\quad%
  \raisebox{\depthof{\usebox{\feline@chapter}}}{\usebox{\feline@chapter}}%
}
\newcommand\feline@chm[1][4cm]{%
  \sbox\feline@chapter{\feline@chapter@marker[#1]}%
  \makebox[0pt][l]{% aka \rlap
    \makebox[1cm][r]{\usebox\feline@chapter}%
  }}
\makechapterstyle{daleif1}{
  \renewcommand\chapnamefont{\normalfont\Large\scshape\raggedleft\so}
  \renewcommand\chaptitlefont{\normalfont\huge\bfseries\scshape\color{nicered}}
  \renewcommand\chapternamenum{}
  \renewcommand\printchaptername{}
  \renewcommand\printchapternum{\null\hfill\feline@chm[2.5cm]\par}
  \renewcommand\afterchapternum{\par\vskip\midchapskip}
  \renewcommand\printchaptertitle[1]{\chaptitlefont\raggedleft ##1\par}
}
\makeatother
\chapterstyle{daleif1}
%\STOPCODE
\setlength\afterchapskip {\onelineskip }
\setlength\beforechapskip {\onelineskip }
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Hello World!}
Hello World!!!
\end{document}

I have a problem with the generated pdf file (I'm a Windows 7 user, I use MikTeX 2.9, with pdfLaTeX compiler): the chapter number is printed at a very low resolution, it does not seem to be printed as a character (in vector graphics) but as a bitmap.

It looks very different with respect to the example provided in the Memoir manual (MemoirChapStyles.pdf).

Just to be clearer, here is the expected result, representing the chapter number as it is in the MemoirChapStyles.pdf file:

Chapter number, as it it in the MemoirChapStyles.pdf file

Good.png (10.13 KiB) Viewed 7231 times

And here is the one the that I get with MikTeX/pdfLaTeX:

Chapter number, as I get it with MikTeK/pdfLaTeX

Bad.png (9.98 KiB) Viewed 7231 times

With MikTeX/LaTeX, the generated DVI is different:

Chapter number, as I get it on the DVI generated with MikTeK\LaTeX

BadDVI.png (4.54 KiB) Viewed 7231 times

Does anyone have had the same problem before?
Do you have any idea of how to solve it?

Thank you in advance,

Leonardo

[kaiserkarl13]

If I download the first six files at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/f ... ex/fourier, I get the same result, but I also get a bunch of "symbol not found; defaults substituted" errors. This is the root cause of your problem (you don't have the fonts in the right sizes installed, at least not in the right way for LaTeX to find them).

If I download all 13 files in the above directory, however, it gives me a "Metric (TFM) file not found" error, which is further evidence that a font file is missing.

Find all the necessary files to use the Fourier fonts correctly and this problem may go away.

[leogas]

I already have all those files. Actually, MikTeX took care of everything.
In fact I don't get any error like the one you say, apart from a few "File <name>-style.* does not exist", but those are due to the "includegraphics" commands present in the source file.

The problem seems to be somewhere else.

[localghost]

Try to remedy this issue by enabling the right font encoding (in the preamble).

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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

Insert this line before loading a font package.


Thorsten

[leogas]

Unfortunately, no results...
I think I'll use another style.

But let's try one more time:
I noticed that if I remove the "sffamily" command in the definition of the box for the chapter number, the problem disappears (but the result does not look as good as in the memoir documentation with the sffamily font).

Here the original code:

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\colorbox{nicered}{\color{white}\bfseries\sffamily\color{blue}\thechapter}%

Here is how I modified it.

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\colorbox{nicered}{\color{white}\bfseries\color{blue}\thechapter}%

What does this mean? The Sans serif family should be defined in my system...

Leonardo

[Montag]

It's now probably overdue: Please provide us with an MWE, as it is mentioned in section 3 of the rules.

[leogas]

Ok,

so here's the code that generates the low resolution chapter number:

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\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{color,calc,graphicx,soul,fourier}
\definecolor{nicered}{rgb}{.647,.129,.149}
\makeatletter
\newlength\dlf@normtxtw
\setlength\dlf@normtxtw{\textwidth}
\def\myhelvetfont{\def\sfdefault{mdput}}
\newsavebox{\feline@chapter}
\newcommand\feline@chapter@marker[1][4cm]{%
  \sbox\feline@chapter{%
    \resizebox{!}{#1}{\fboxsep=1pt%
      \colorbox{nicered}{\color{white}\bfseries\sffamily\thechapter}%
    }}%
  \rotatebox{90}{%
    \resizebox{%
      \heightof{\usebox{\feline@chapter}}+\depthof{\usebox{\feline@chapter}}}%
    {!}{\scshape\so\@chapapp}}\quad%
  \raisebox{\depthof{\usebox{\feline@chapter}}}{\usebox{\feline@chapter}}%
}
\newcommand\feline@chm[1][4cm]{%
  \sbox\feline@chapter{\feline@chapter@marker[#1]}%
  \makebox[0pt][l]{% aka \rlap
    \makebox[1cm][r]{\usebox\feline@chapter}%
  }}
\makechapterstyle{daleif1}{
  \renewcommand\chapnamefont{\normalfont\Large\scshape\raggedleft\so}
  \renewcommand\chaptitlefont{\normalfont\huge\bfseries\scshape\color{nicered}}
  \renewcommand\chapternamenum{}
  \renewcommand\printchaptername{}
  \renewcommand\printchapternum{\null\hfill\feline@chm[2.5cm]\par}
  \renewcommand\afterchapternum{\par\vskip\midchapskip}
  \renewcommand\printchaptertitle[1]{\chaptitlefont\raggedleft ##1\par}
}
\makeatother
\chapterstyle{daleif1}
\setlength\afterchapskip {\onelineskip }
\setlength\beforechapskip {\onelineskip }
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\chapter{A chapter title}
Hello World!!!
\end{document}

And here's the other version, which looks better in terms of resolution, but does not look as good in terms of font style:

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\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{color,calc,graphicx,soul,fourier}
\definecolor{nicered}{rgb}{.647,.129,.149}
\makeatletter
\newlength\dlf@normtxtw
\setlength\dlf@normtxtw{\textwidth}
\def\myhelvetfont{\def\sfdefault{mdput}}
\newsavebox{\feline@chapter}
\newcommand\feline@chapter@marker[1][4cm]{%
  \sbox\feline@chapter{%
    \resizebox{!}{#1}{\fboxsep=1pt%
      \colorbox{nicered}{\color{white}\bfseries\thechapter}%
    }}%
  \rotatebox{90}{%
    \resizebox{%
      \heightof{\usebox{\feline@chapter}}+\depthof{\usebox{\feline@chapter}}}%
    {!}{\scshape\so\@chapapp}}\quad%
  \raisebox{\depthof{\usebox{\feline@chapter}}}{\usebox{\feline@chapter}}%
}
\newcommand\feline@chm[1][4cm]{%
  \sbox\feline@chapter{\feline@chapter@marker[#1]}%
  \makebox[0pt][l]{% aka \rlap
    \makebox[1cm][r]{\usebox\feline@chapter}%
  }}
\makechapterstyle{daleif1}{
  \renewcommand\chapnamefont{\normalfont\Large\scshape\raggedleft\so}
  \renewcommand\chaptitlefont{\normalfont\huge\bfseries\scshape\color{nicered}}
  \renewcommand\chapternamenum{}
  \renewcommand\printchaptername{}
  \renewcommand\printchapternum{\null\hfill\feline@chm[2.5cm]\par}
  \renewcommand\afterchapternum{\par\vskip\midchapskip}
  \renewcommand\printchaptertitle[1]{\chaptitlefont\raggedleft ##1\par}
}
\makeatother
\chapterstyle{daleif1}
\setlength\afterchapskip {\onelineskip }
\setlength\beforechapskip {\onelineskip }
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\chapter{A chapter title}
Hello World!!!
\end{document}

Please notice that the codes are the very same, except for a \sffamily which is present in the first code but not on the second one.
Actually, the problem persists if you replace that \sffamily with \ttfamily...

Any ideas regarding possible solutions?

Thank you in advance,

Leonardo

[frabjous]

When I compile your sample (with TeXlive 2011 on Linux), the 1 looks nice. Again, the problem would seem to be with the fonts installed on your system.

That 1 looks like it's just computer modern sans serif.

Do you have the cm-super package installed, for type 1 CM fonts?

Have you tried loading it, or alternatively, lmodern before loading fourier?

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\usepackage{lmodern}

(right before the other \usepackage line)

There's a funny line in the code:

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\def\myhelvetfont{\def\sfdefault{mdput}}

This line doesn't actually do anything, because it defines a command, which is then not used later on. But if the command \myhelvetfont were used, what it would do is change the sans serif (sffamily) font to Utopia. (Which is particularly strange, since the name of the command would suggest Helvetica!) Try it, put \myhelvetfont on the line right after the definition, and the look of the 1 changes. You can also try different values for \sfdefault. Put in:

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\renewcommand*{\sfdefault}{phv}

for Helvetica. Again, the look of the 1 changes.

Whats fonts does your PDF viewer say are embedded?

But if you want it to look like it looks in your first screen shot, you need Computer Modern or Latin Modern Sans Serif, and you'll need to make sure you have them installed as scaleable fonts. (cm-super or lmodern packages).

[leogas]

Wow! It works!

I already had the cm-super installed.
So I added:

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\usepackage{lmodern}

at the very beginning... and the problem was solved!

Thank you very much for your help!!!
So, here's the final (working) code:

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\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{color,calc,graphicx,soul,fourier}
\definecolor{nicered}{rgb}{.647,.129,.149}
\makeatletter
\newlength\dlf@normtxtw
\setlength\dlf@normtxtw{\textwidth}
\def\myhelvetfont{\def\sfdefault{mdput}}
\newsavebox{\feline@chapter}
\newcommand\feline@chapter@marker[1][4cm]{%
  \sbox\feline@chapter{%
    \resizebox{!}{#1}{\fboxsep=1pt%
      \colorbox{nicered}{\color{white}\bfseries\sffamily\thechapter}%
    }}%
  \rotatebox{90}{%
    \resizebox{%
      \heightof{\usebox{\feline@chapter}}+\depthof{\usebox{\feline@chapter}}}%
    {!}{\scshape\so\@chapapp}}\quad%
  \raisebox{\depthof{\usebox{\feline@chapter}}}{\usebox{\feline@chapter}}%
}
\newcommand\feline@chm[1][4cm]{%
  \sbox\feline@chapter{\feline@chapter@marker[#1]}%
  \makebox[0pt][l]{% aka \rlap
    \makebox[1cm][r]{\usebox\feline@chapter}%
  }}
\makechapterstyle{daleif1}{
  \renewcommand\chapnamefont{\normalfont\Large\scshape\raggedleft\so}
  \renewcommand\chaptitlefont{\normalfont\huge\bfseries\scshape\color{nicered}}
  \renewcommand\chapternamenum{}
  \renewcommand\printchaptername{}
  \renewcommand\printchapternum{\null\hfill\feline@chm[2.5cm]\par}
  \renewcommand\afterchapternum{\par\vskip\midchapskip}
  \renewcommand\printchaptertitle[1]{\chaptitlefont\raggedleft ##1\par}
}
\makeatother
\chapterstyle{daleif1}
\setlength\afterchapskip {\onelineskip }
\setlength\beforechapskip {\onelineskip }
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\chapter{A chapter title}
Hello World!!!
\end{document}

Then, I didn't quite get the \myhelvetfont thing... I tried to put it right after the definition of \myhelvetfont but things did not change.
Things changed when I added:

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\renewcommand*{\sfdefault}{phv}

In this case, the "1" is different.

Thank you again!

Leonardo