Result of I need your experience - classification and comparison of languages

[Fernando Pérez]

Yvan Radenac wrote:

> Hi,
> This is the results of the questions i asked few months ago as the
> post
> "I need your experience - classification and comparison"
> The subject of the report is "oriented object languages and their free
> implementation".
> 
> First, thank you for your answers.
> 
> You can find, in french, the report at
> http://www.cnamoo.net/uv/b5/ftp/mini/radenac.pdf

Hi, 

I'd love to take a look at it, but you need to rebuild that pdf  with 
non-bitmapped fonts. Sorry but it just looks awful and it will give anyone a 
headache in 5 minutes. It's not your fault, it's an annoying problem with 
fonts when making pdf from latex.

Here's a piece of the man page for lyxport 
(http://www-hep.colorado.edu/~fperez/lyxport/lyxport.html#fonts) on this 
issue. If you used raw latex instead of lyx the same applies.

Fonts
Normally PDF documents made on Unix-type systems from LaTeX sources produce
horrible looking fonts when viewed with Adobe's own Acrobat Reader. I don't
know the many intricacies of the problem (you can search for the details on
your own). I'll simply list here the trick that has helped me solve the
font problem. Try it, your mileage may vary.
In your home directory, make (or modify it if it already exists) a file named 
.dvipsrc which must contain the lines:
    p+ psfonts.cmz
    p+ psfonts.amz
Make sure that the LaTeX preamble of your LyX file (or the part before 
\begin{document} if you are using straight LaTeX files) contains:
    \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
    \usepackage{ae,aecompl}
This will guarantee that T1 encoded fonts come out looking good in the final 
PDF.
note
Paul Hewlett <paulh at cape.issi.co.za> tells me that: ``Selecting the 'pslatex'
fonts in Layout->Document->Fonts make the fonts in the resultant pdf document
eminently readable.'' Thanks for the tip.

Cheers,

f.