Re: Fonts to present phonology in IPA at web pages

En réponse à Almaran Dungeonmaster <dungeonmaster@...>:

>
> We've had this discussion before.
Yep, and you didn't convince me of their advantages. On the contrary, that talk
convinced me that they were really unsuited for browsing :)) .

> I never read PDF files in my browser, I just have it load Adobe Acrobat
> (or
> possibly Acrobat Reader) as a helper application and view it from there.
> And
> the added slowness is by far outweighed the advantage by the
> cross-platform
> compatibility, consistent layout and printer friendliness, especially
> as
> computers and connections are getting faster by the day...
>
Far from it. But as you said, we already had this discussion, and I don't feel
like having it again :)) .

>
> Well, my PDF documents usually look much more clean and consistent than
> any
> webpage. I have some troubles with lines having a varyiable thickness
> when I
> print tables from MS Word, but the problem is only on screen, not in
> printing. If you use a good distiller (and not just a simple PDF
> printer
> driver) which embeds the fonts used, you should have no problem.
I use PDFLaTeX or dvipdfm, depending on which is best for the particular file.
They have the advantage of coming free with MikTeX :)) .

 I
> have
> created PDF files of documents made using very wriggly, homemade fonts,
> and
> they come out perfectly.
>
According to the little help coming with PDFLaTeX, it can embed properly only
fonts that have been designed to be used with PDF documents. It can handle
other fonts, but the result is less esthetic.

Christophe.

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