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[Jan Schlüter <261312@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The problem still occurs in 10.04 LTS. I get Type 3 fonts with
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} and Type 1 without. The latter is typeset
slightly differently (font seems to be slightly larger horizontally, at
least some lines are word-wrapped earlier).

I would like to raise the priority of this, as people have been complaining about my bitmapped fonts since I switched to Ubuntu, and only now I learned that removing the fontenc line (which I always put in my files) solves the problem.
Apart from that, it is not a LyX problem, but a general problem of Ubuntu's standard LaTeX setup. I'm not an expert on how the system is set up, but maybe somebody with a little more insight could open a new bug?

For anybody stumbling upon this by googling just as I did: The Latin
Modern fonts are included in Ubuntu by default, giving another
possibility to get proper T1 fonts. Specifically, I tried the following
combinations in a TeX file processed with pdflatex:

F = \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}, L = \usepackage{lmodern}, C = installed cm-super package
{F}: bitmap font, smaller typesetting, filesize 412 kB
{}: vector font, larger typesetting, filesize 420 kB
{F,L}: vector font, larger typesetting, filesize 543 kB
{F,C}: vector font, smaller typesetting, filesize 579 kB

As I cannot visually distinguish Latin Modern from Computer Modern, I
don't know which font has actually been used for {} and why it is so
much smaller than the other vector font files. Anyway, I think that {F}
should produce a vector font file with a standard Ubuntu installation.

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LyX should recommend cm-super for vector fonts
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/261312
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