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Why does the PDF I made with ps2pdf or dvipdf look so blurry in Adobe Acroread?

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Why does the PDF I made with ps2pdf or dvipdf look so blurry in Adobe Acroread?

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Because Adobe Acrobat Reader does a bad job of displaying bitmaped Type3 fonts. Solution: Force dvips to use Type1 fonts. Example: [52]zjohnson@point:~$ dvips -o talks.ps -Ppdf talks.dvi [53]zjohnson@point:~$ ps2pdf talks.ps [54]zjohnson@point:~$ acroread talks.