[OS X TeX] Re: MacOSX-TeX Digest, Vol 17, Issue 2

[Kevin Van Horn]

Thanks!  Yes, it turns out that Adobe Reader is the problem; Preview  
prints things just fine.

-- Kevin Van Horn

On Mar 2, 2009, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> On 2 Mar 2009, at 04:17, Kevin Van Horn wrote:
>
>> I have a terrible time printing any sort of PDF file that was
>> created via TeX/LaTeX.  The print quality is quite poor, and when I
>> look at the text closely it appears that it is being halftoned!
>> That is, it looks as if the text is being treated as gray (less than
>> completely black) and then appropriately converted to a dot pattern
>> to produce the gray tone.  I have this problem both with PDFs I
>> produce and with academic papers I download from the web.
>
> Are you using Adobe Reader to print the PDFs? If so, try using Preview
> instead.
> JK