ChemDev

When generating an output for LaTeX documents, one might experience a bad quality of the pdf-output, while the dvi output looks good. The letters seem blurry and have kind of torn edges, which might be a nice effect for Photoshop but not for your publications. The trick to prevent these bad results is to add just one line to the preamble of your main-file.

\usepackage{ae}

The main use of the ae package is to produce pdf-files using versions of the CM fonts instead of the bitmapped EC fonts.

There are sources, that say \usepackage{times} also should be added to the preamble, but that changes the whole look of your document, and by the way, the times-package is obsolete.

The result is shown in this before and after images:

Tags: LaTeX

Scientific writing and publishing is often done by using LaTeX. This easy to learn and powerful typesetting language can be extended with a whole bunch of packages reaching from chessboards to chemistry. In former times one used a normal text-editor to compose his documents. Today there are several IDE-like editors, making LaTeX much more comfortable. TeXnicCenter and TeXMaker are two of them. With the rise of Eclipse it was just a matter of time that there would be a plug-in, embedding TeX into Eclipse, and there it is. I am not a friend of having an extra program for each purpose. So if there already is a program that could do the job, why install another one for it. Eclipse is needed anyway, so why shouldn’t it be used for typesetting with LaTeX. But wait a minute, let’s have a look, if TeXlipse is good enough to replace a TeX-editor like TeXMaker. Read more »

Tags: Eclipse, Eclipse Plugin, LaTeX, TeXlipse