[Fedora TeX Live] Fix for scalable cm?

Aidan Delaney aidan at phoric.eu
Thu Jul 14 22:22:36 CEST 2011


Dear all,
Is there a fix for the issue discussed on 
http://www.linux.cz/pipermail/texlive/2011-March/000105.html yet?

I've opened a Fedora bug for this
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720191

Any fix would be appreciated as it's killing my thesis writing.  Why should it?  Read on...

I use the excellent textext plugin for Inkscape.  This plugin allows you to write arbitrary LaTeX in SVG images.  In the background it generates a PDF and then uses the magic of cairo to pull out the written text as a vector graphic.  As pdflatex is defaulting to type3 fonts, cairo is doing its best, however the best it can do with a raster typeface is to sample it at 72dpi which, as you can imagine, makes things unreadable.

As my thesis is on diagrams :)  I'd appreciate a fix (or workaround) as soon as possible.

-- 
Aidan


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