It seems like the font choice is somehow embedded in the document class itself; I've tried choosing fonts the usual way, but with no effect.
[Tex/LaTex] How to change fonts within the sciposter class
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I received this very nice explanation by email from Thorsten S.
Asking arXiv admins with technical questions like this should always be your first choice. These should percolate up to the people that actually operate the TeX system at arXiv even if a little persistence may be necessary.
Indeed, arXiv does not embed the base 35 fonts in dvips generated PostScript. If you are familiar with texlive arXiv's setting in
texmf/web2c/updmap.cfgidvipsDownloadBase35 falsehowever (as mentioned in previous responses) due to repeated reports of problems with arXiv generated PDF from
pdflatex, despite the standards requirement that every PDF or PostScript interpreter must have the base 35 fonts, arXiv does embed the base 35 fonts inpdflatexgenerated PDF. This is the settingpdftexDownloadBase14 truein
texmf/web2c/updmap.cfgYou say:
It seems that that iPad and some other devices don't have the times font available
They should, so if this is indeed the case arXiv would love to see some examples and get to the bottom of this.
The
dvipsfontmap advice above by Lev Bishop will work, however if there is a widespread problem arXiv should know about this.It is also possible to control most PDF parameters and options via literal PostScript from a
\specialcommand in you TeX source, e.g. you could specify the list of fonts to always embed like this<</AlwaysEmbed [/Helvetica /Times-Roman]>> setdistillerparamsSee
http://arxiv.org/help/faq/pdfrotate
for some more info on this. If this doesn't help, send email with details to arXiv for further advice.
Hope this helps
T. (yes, I do provide technical support for arXiv)
You have some predefined commands to change the fonts of some elements:
\namefont
\titlefont
\addressfont
\sectionfont
\subsectionfont
\hintfont
\quotefont
Redefining those commands you can change the font attributes for the associated elements. Here's a little example in which I changed the font associated to the first four commmands to use Zapf Chancery:
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv}
\moderncvstyle{classic}
\moderncvcolor{blue}
\usepackage[scale=0.75]{geometry}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\firstname{John}
\familyname{Doe}
\title{CV}
\address{Baker Street}{Southampton}
\mobile{+1~(234)~567~890}
\phone{+2~(345)~678~901}
\fax{+3~(456)~789~012}
\email{john@doe.org}
\homepage{www.johndoe.com}
\renewcommand*\namefont{\fontfamily{pzc}\fontsize{40}{48}\selectfont}
\renewcommand*\titlefont{\fontfamily{pzc}\fontsize{20}{24}\selectfont}
\renewcommand*\addressfont{\fontfamily{pzc}\selectfont}
\renewcommand*\sectionfont{\fontfamily{pzc}\fontsize{20}{24}\selectfont}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\section{Test Section}
\cventry{2012}{Title}{Institute}{City}{}{Description}
\cventry{2012}{Title}{Institute}{City}{}{Description}
\section{Test Section}
\cventry{2012}{Title}{Institute}{City}{}{Description}
\cventry{2012}{Title}{Institute}{City}{}{Description}
\end{document}
If you want to change the font for some particular argument(s) of, for example, the \cventry command you can define your own command to include the necessary redefinition(s); here's an example in which I defined a \Mycventry command using Zapf Chancery for the last argument of \cventry:
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv}
\moderncvstyle{classic}
\moderncvcolor{blue}
\usepackage[scale=0.75]{geometry}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\firstname{John}
\familyname{Doe}
\title{CV}
\address{Baker Street}{Southampton}
\mobile{+1~(234)~567~890}
\phone{+2~(345)~678~901}
\fax{+3~(456)~789~012}
\email{john@doe.org}
\homepage{www.johndoe.com}
\newcommand\Mycventry[6]{%
\cventry{#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}{#5}{\fontfamily{pzc}\selectfont#6}}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\section{Test Section}
\Mycventry{2012}{Title}{Institute}{City}{}{\fontfamily{pzc}\selectfont \lipsum[2]}
\cventry{2012}{Title}{Institute}{City}{}{\lipsum[2]}
\end{document}
And the output showing the comparison between \cventrya and \Mycventry:
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This works for me:
The problem might be that you loaded a font package that doesn't provide a sans-serif font, e.g.
mathpazoorfourier. In that case you need to add the following to your preamble:This makes the serif font the default font. The standard for
sciposteris to use the sans-serif font as default.