Re: font problems

[Dan McMahill <mcmahill mtl mit edu>]

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> Dan McMahill wrote:
>
> > The unicode character there is a lower case greek epsilon.  When I print
> > to PDF, that character is clearly bitmapped and looks ugly compared to
> > the rest of the text.  When I send to my postscript printer, it (the
> > epsilon) doesn't even come out.
> >
> > When I do the same from a win32 build, the printed character looks
> > pretty good as do upper and lower case delta and rho.
> >
> > Is there a better way to use greek letters for variables or mathematical
> > symbols?   Is there a more standard (portable across all expected
> > platforms) way I should get a font?
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> What you do is correct.  It's just that your Linux system doesn't seem to have
> good fonts covering the Greek letters.  If the bitmap doesn't come out, well,
> that's a bug.
>
> Anyway, try installing the DejaVu fonts.

Thanks!  That worked.  This was my first plunge into unicode, utf-8, and 
pango, gtk print, and cairo all wrapped into one so I wasn't sure if I 
was doing something silly.

-Dan