printing to pdf results in ugly text

[wimbo]

hi,

i'm used to convert my textdocuments to pdf before mailing them. i never had problems with that, but since i'm using gentoo, my pdf output is really, really ugly. fonts are blurry, characters are merging together... what's wrong? how can i solve this.

(i'm using koffice, might it be of any importance)

greetz,

wimbo

[melange]

What kind of textdocuments?
I write everything i LaTeX, and this is how i fixed the problem: http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta/resources/type1