[OS X TeX] CMR fonts

Themis Matsoukas tmatsoukas at me.com
Tue Oct 12 16:35:04 EDT 2010


On Oct 11, 2010, at 2:21 PM, Ross Moore wrote:

> Hi George,
> 
> <Screen shot 2010-10-12 at 5.10.00 AM.png>
> 
> ... since some characters will not show correctly.
> Notice how the '-' is missing in  y_{m-1}  at the right edge
> of the example you sent.
> 
> In my experience, missing '-' signs are the single most annoying
> problem when importing images having CM-encoded fonts into a more
> standardly-encoded font within a PDF. 
> If you do not fix this, you risk having your book published with
> these characters missing. 
> 
> I've done books in which every image had to be touched-up 
> (in Illustrator) to find and replace all such instances
> --- especially in the axes-tick labelling.

Isn't it preferable then to work with outlined fonts?

Themis





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