i've been having a really hard time with trying to resolve a problem.

details:

i'm using amsfonts,amssymb and amsmath for my fonts and would like to continue to. the problem is that the ligature that is used for "fl" of "ff" means that i can't do a text search within the pdf file itself for any words that have these combinations of letters (or some others). there are some rough fixes out there like using the command:

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

but that makes all the fonts into bitmaps it seems and just looks generally horrible. i would like to continue to use pdflatex, because I've included hyperref and some other things and want to keep my internal and external links within the file.

i'm not sure if this problem has to do with adobe not getting the correct font file. or that i should embed the font (though i've tried doing that with little success). any help would be appreciated.

8/14/2009 9:16:25 AM

First, you should always embed the font files in the PDFs. You can never be sure what fonts people who view the PDF files will have access to.

Are you using the type 1 fonts?

8/14/2009 11:36:48 AM

Yes. and it is not embedding, even when turning on DownloadBase14 (of which this is a member I'm pretty sure). But anyhow. I got it worked out by including the package pslatex, which fixes some font issues for pdf output.

8/14/2009 1:42:44 PM