distorted ps, pdf - latex question

[Henning Sato von Rosen]

> > A question: When I generate ps or pdf files, the letters are very
> > simple and distorted.
> 
> This is probably to do with the native TeX fonts getting rendered as
> bitmaps;  so they come out quite nice at 300dpi on your laserprinter but are
> ugly on screen and cause huge files.

I found out that the fonts are not found and rendered as monospace courier,
when doing the dvi i get a lots of these: 
"xdvi: Warning: Font map calls for cmbx10.pfb, but it was not found
(will try PK version instead)."

> If you use 'pdflatex' and then LaTeX package 'psfonts' you'll get lovely PDF
> files with nice looking fonts and are also tiny.

Sorry, I am rather new to ubuntu/debian/linux, and apt-get Univerese
doesn't have pdflatex/psfonts. Where do I begin.
 
> There are also some autotraced PostScript Font versions of the classic TeX
> fonts and these are known to produce good results too.

I installed lots of tetx -- should'nt they be included?

Thanks!
/Henning

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