Letter Beta in PDFs

Hi all-

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this question, so please forgive me if this is out of place. I currently have a kindle dx, but have noticed that it has a problem when viewing pdf's with the letter beta in documents compiled from LaTeX- it is printed over top of the previous letter. Since I'm a physics graduate student, and most journal papers are compiled from LaTeX, this is a pretty big problem for me. So, I'm planning to save up to get a new ereader that can show the letter beta correctly.

I was wondering if someone could take a look at a pdf with such a letter and let me know if it appears ok on the Entourage eDGe.

If you don't have a pdf with the letter beta from LaTeX, there's one at:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...le+letter+beta

Thank you all so very much!

Looks the same on th eDGe as on the Kindle DX, apparently; i.e., overlapped...

If the Kindle is also using the Adobe Reader toolkit, it would put the problem at Adobe's doorstep, although it looks fine with Windows Adobe Reader 9.

Hi,

Unfortunately, it looks very the same on the eDGe as in the posted screenshot in the mobilread forum.

Do you have the latex source code? Then I could try it with my latex installation...

Thanks. Here's some latex source code to test Greek/English/other math symbols (it's not quite the same as above):

\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{book}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\author{test}
\begin{document}
\begin{align*}
&\partial_\alpha \quad \partial_\beta \quad \partial_\gamma \quad \partial_\delta \quad \partial_\epsilon \quad \partial_\varepsilon \quad \partial_\zeta \quad \partial_\eta \quad \partial_\theta \quad \partial_\vartheta \quad \partial_\iota \quad \partial_\kappa \\
&\partial_\lambda \quad \partial_\mu \quad \partial_\nu \quad \partial_\xi \quad \partial_\pi \quad \partial_\varpi \quad \partial_\rho \quad \partial_\varrho \quad \partial_\sigma \quad \partial_\varsigma \quad \partial_\tau \quad \partial_\upsilon \\
&\partial_\phi \quad \partial_\varphi \quad \partial_\chi \quad \partial_\psi \quad \partial_\omega \quad \partial_\Gamma \quad \partial_\Delta \quad \partial_\Theta \quad \partial_\Lambda \quad \partial_\Xi \quad \partial_\Pi \quad \partial_\Sigma \\
&\partial_\Upsilon \quad \partial_\Upsilon \quad \partial_\Phi \quad \partial_\Psi \quad \partial_\Omega \\
&A_a \quad A_b \quad A_c \quad A_d \quad A_e \quad A_f \quad A_g \quad A_h \quad A_i \quad A_j \quad A_k \\
&A_l \quad A_m \quad A_n \quad A_o \quad A_p \quad A_q \quad A_r \quad A_s \quad A_t \quad A_u \quad A_v \\
&A_w \quad A_x \quad A_y \quad A_z \\
&A_A \quad A_B \quad A_C \quad A_D \quad A_E \quad A_F \quad A_G \quad A_H \quad A_I \quad A_J \quad A_K \\
&A_L \quad A_M \quad A_N \quad A_O \quad A_P \quad A_Q \quad A_R \quad A_S \quad A_T \quad A_U \quad A_V \\
&A_W \quad A_X \quad A_Y \quad A_Z \\
&B_\ell \quad B_+ \quad B_- \quad B_= \quad B_> \quad B_< \\
\alpha \beta \gamma \delta \\
\end{align*}
\end{document}

I guess I just have to hope adobe will someday fix it... :-(
Thanks so much.

I tried this code and it seems that if I use the program pdflatex to create the pdf you get this problem. However, if you use dvi-ps-pdf then it works fine.

Anyway, if you have acrobat you can just try converting the problematic pdf to ps and then back to pdf and it will work.

Originally Posted by physics

Thanks. Here's some latex source code to test Greek/English/other math symbols (it's not quite the same as above):

\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{book}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\author{test}
\begin{document}
\begin{align*}
&\partial_\alpha \quad \partial_\beta \quad \partial_\gamma \quad \partial_\delta \quad \partial_\epsilon \quad \partial_\varepsilon \quad \partial_\zeta \quad \partial_\eta \quad \partial_\theta \quad \partial_\vartheta \quad \partial_\iota \quad \partial_\kappa \\
&\partial_\lambda \quad \partial_\mu \quad \partial_\nu \quad \partial_\xi \quad \partial_\pi \quad \partial_\varpi \quad \partial_\rho \quad \partial_\varrho \quad \partial_\sigma \quad \partial_\varsigma \quad \partial_\tau \quad \partial_\upsilon \\
&\partial_\phi \quad \partial_\varphi \quad \partial_\chi \quad \partial_\psi \quad \partial_\omega \quad \partial_\Gamma \quad \partial_\Delta \quad \partial_\Theta \quad \partial_\Lambda \quad \partial_\Xi \quad \partial_\Pi \quad \partial_\Sigma \\
&\partial_\Upsilon \quad \partial_\Upsilon \quad \partial_\Phi \quad \partial_\Psi \quad \partial_\Omega \\
&A_a \quad A_b \quad A_c \quad A_d \quad A_e \quad A_f \quad A_g \quad A_h \quad A_i \quad A_j \quad A_k \\
&A_l \quad A_m \quad A_n \quad A_o \quad A_p \quad A_q \quad A_r \quad A_s \quad A_t \quad A_u \quad A_v \\
&A_w \quad A_x \quad A_y \quad A_z \\
&A_A \quad A_B \quad A_C \quad A_D \quad A_E \quad A_F \quad A_G \quad A_H \quad A_I \quad A_J \quad A_K \\
&A_L \quad A_M \quad A_N \quad A_O \quad A_P \quad A_Q \quad A_R \quad A_S \quad A_T \quad A_U \quad A_V \\
&A_W \quad A_X \quad A_Y \quad A_Z \\
&B_\ell \quad B_+ \quad B_- \quad B_= \quad B_> \quad B_< \\
\alpha \beta \gamma \delta \\
\end{align*}
\end{document}

I guess I just have to hope adobe will someday fix it... :-(
Thanks so much.

I can confirm the statement by fgruber: Via dvi-ps-pdf there is no problem with beta, but when pdflatex was used... Interesting.

Wow!!! Thanks so much. That's great because I can just download the .ps versions of papers of arXiv and convert them. You guys are awesome!!! Although I wonder why pdflatex does that...