[texhax] Ligature Issue

[William F. Adams]

On Friday, October 1, 2004, at 06:16  AM, Stephane Fombonne wrote:

> The result is fine on my printer, but on my work's printer, it's fuzzy 
> :
> The thing is that with pdflatex I've got a fuzzy line, and with dvips 
> -Ppdf
> G0 I've got only the word 'fine' going wrong...
>
> I've also checked the Acrobat reader font properties. It is also 
> fine...
> (defined as type 1 custom).
>
> Strange ...
>
> Is there a way to disable ligatures "fi", apart from doing
> "This works f{}ine" ? (I mean an option in the preamble or in the fonts
> files)?
> I would like to stick to roman style (iso sans serif, like helvetica)

Could you put a copy of the .pdf on a site somewhere?

My suspicion is your setup at work has some untoward aspect, either a 
buggy PS RIP, or a version of Adobe Acrobat set to use local fonts or 
something.

An alternative here would be to set up using Times .pfb files instead 
of the URW clone.

William

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