Re: The Russian issue

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:

> On Thursday 19 April 2007 09:10, you wrote:
>> Indeed, resolution 8000 is extremly large. This is a direct consequence
>> of using dvips-option -Ppdf together with a document that uses
>> pk/bitmap/pixel fonts. THe best solution would be to use Type1 fonts,
>> which in this case I think are provided by the cm-super package. Does
>> installing that package help?
>
> Yes, installing that package does help and even makes the PDF looks better 
> as the Russian fonts look "cleaner" (at least to my non-Russian eye).
> It also gets rid of all warnings and errors during the build.
>
> I will add cm-super to the build-deps for the manual (there goes another 
> 60MB, sigh ;-)

lmodern is much smaller, provides approximately the same set of outline
fonts (don't ask me for the gory details), but needs a change to the
LaTeX file: \usepackage{lmodern}.  I guess this needs to be coordinated
with the toolchain maintainers.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)