[pdftex] FYI: Acrobat Reader 5.0.5

[Hans Hagen]

At 10:43 PM 5/20/2002 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>On Mon, 20 May 2002 story at uakron.edu wrote:
>
> > Acrobat Reader 5.0.5 for Linux and Sun Solris SPARC
> > has been loaded to the adobe web site.  See
> >
> > http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
>
>Thanks for the news.  Does anyone have tips on how get an accurate
>on-screen rendition of type 1 fonts in Acroread 5.0.5 for Linux?  I
>just tried it, and the default rendition seems distinctly inferior to
>4.0.5.  I'm viewing a pdftex-generated document in Lucida: in 4.X the
>screen glyphs look very much like the printed ones, while in 5.X the
>screen glyphs seem like a vague approximation.  (Sorry, off topic I
>know, but tempting.)

maybe configuring cooltype works (if present in the linux version); also, 
by default smooth graphics is turned off, and turning that on in the 
preferences will make look at least line art better,

Hans

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