[OS X TeX] Bold small caps

[Joshua Smith]

On Dec 7, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Morten Høgholm wrote:

> On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:06:17 +0100, Joshua Smith  
> <joshua.smith at ucsf.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hello all.  I know really little about using different fonts with  
>> LaTeX, but I would like to have bold small caps.  I did some  
>> looking through the archives of Comp.text.tex and it appears the  
>> easiest way to achieve this is to declare
>>
>> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>>
>> and then use
>>
>> \textbf{\textsc{Text}}
>>
>> However, when I do this, the entire PDF looks fuzzy in both  
>> TeXShop and Preview, but looks fine in Adobe Reader.  If I  
>> deactivate \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} I lose the bold small caps,  
>> but the PDF looks sharp in TeXShop and Preview.  What is the cause  
>> of this?
>
> Bitmap fonts. Install the outline versions from the CM Super  
> package - it's available through i-Installer.

Thanks.  That did the trick.  I just never knew why I needed to  
bother with the extra 56 MB download of the CM Super package.

Josh



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