We have collected experience with the files generated from LaTeX. While LaTeX is generally robust, the converter from postscript to PDF (Adobe Distiller 4.0) has three problems with files generated from LaTeX.

Fonts

Computer modern fonts convert to a poor picture on the computer screen. While the printout is OK, the quality of the display can be improved only by changing the fonts. The key is to use the times package. Insert the command

\usepackage{times}

into your file. This cured all the readability problems we found.

Minus sign in the exponent

We found that the converter makes a _ character from all the minus signs (-) in the EXPONENTs (and maybe subscripts) of mathematical expressions. The proven solution for this is to write \mbox{--} in the exponents, instead of simple -. Ugly, but works.

Another possibility is to use the ps2pdf utility in Ghostscript. The above problem disappears using ps2pdf. URL: https://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html

Wrong spacing of certain characters after the above problem