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Converting Latex to pdf or Why Do My Documents Look So Crappy? By Latex attractively renders text and mathematics to Postscript. However, naively converting the Postscript output to Adobe's Portable Document Format (pdf) using Acrobat Distiller or ps2pdf yields a document that displays poorly electronically, though it will look fine when printed. Nevertheless, it is possible to convert a latex document into a high quality pdf.

Below is a brief discussion of the problem and solution, along with some relevant links. The Problem: The key to the problem lies in the difference between Postscript Type 1 and Type 3 fonts.

Type 1 fonts are stored as curves, which can be scaled to whatever size is desired. Modern Type 1 fonts also include 'hints' for rendering the fonts at low resolutions (e.g.

Your monitor). Type 3 fonts, on the other hand, are stored as bitmaps at the appropriate resolution for the print medium. Type 3 fonts rendered by Acrobat Reader look 'fuzzy.' The trick is to embed Type 1 rather than Type 3 fonts in your document.

Latex, the typesetting system developed by Donald Knuth, uses Computer Modern fonts stored in the Metafont format by default. Metafont is another scalable format. The problem is the conversion of the dvi file to Postscript. By default, when you run dvips, (or when you view using xdvi) it converts the Computer Modern Metafonts into Postscript Type 3 fonts, at the appropriate resolution of your printing device. (The resolution may be controlled by the '-D' command line option to dvips) While ghostview (a Postscript viewer) does a good job of rendering Type 3 fonts at low resolution, Adobe Acrobat does not.

Moreover, the document is not as portable when using Type 3 fonts. If the bitmaps were generated for 300dpi, then the document will not look any better when printed on a 600dpi printer. Powtoon For Windows 8.1. The Solution The key is to embed Type 1 (rather than Type 3) fonts in your Postscript document. Luckily, there are freely available Type 1 versions of the Computer Modern fonts used by Latex.