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When I was at university I'd sometimes print PDFs as 4 pages per side to save paper, and some LaTeX-generated PDFs had some horrible font that became unreadably

When I was at university I'd sometimes print PDFs as 4 pages per side to save paper, and some LaTeX-generated PDFs had some horrible font that became unreadably pixelated (while on screen it looked fine iirc). Not all PDFs were like this but LaTeX ones more often were culprits. HTML on the other hand printed perfect tiny vector glyphs, so it wasn't the printer's fault. I don't know enough now to find back what bad font this was back then, but I hope the situation is better today for LaTeX PDFs...

jltsiren 1y ago
Printing is black magic. One common issue is that you don't have all fonts embedded in the PDF file. There may not be anything wrong on screen, as the PDF reader can probably find the font if you have it installed. But the software you use for printing may not know enough about the capabilities of your printer, and it may choose to hope for the best. If your printer does not have the font and the printing software didn't bother sending it with the document, the printer will use another font as a substitute.