[OS X TeX] Courier font changes?
Gary L. Gray
gray at engr.psu.edu
Thu Sep 15 17:01:02 EDT 2005
On Sep 15, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Michael S. Hanson wrote:
> I use the Courier font for \texttt{} in a variety of documents,
> loaded along with Utopia and Fourier in my document preambles via
> \usepackage{fourier,courier}. Since upgrading my desktop to OS X
> 10.4.2 and gwTeX to the most recent version (my prior installation
> was probably about 16-24 months old), text in the Courier font has
> a much finer "weight" in documents I compile now relative to the
> same documents compiled under the previous system (10.3.9 with an
> earlier gwTeX install). I'm not sure if "weight" is the correct
> terminology; the Courier font in the new documents is very fine,
> thin and wispy -- the older documents almost appear to have the
> Courier font set in bold (they do not) by comparison. Is there
> anyway to get back the old font or change the weight?
>
> Looking through my installed fonts in Font Book, it looks like
> it could be that "Courier New" (a Microsoft font?) is now being
> placed into the PDFs instead of Apple's Courier. Is there some
> configuration file I could modify to change this behavior? If so,
> I suspect I would need fairly detailed instructions; fonts in
> LaTeX make me break out into a cold sweat. ;) Thanks in advance!
Have you looked at the same document using Preview under 10.3.X? It
was my impression after moving to 10.4 that everything looked a
little "wispier". :-)
-- Gary
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