Pdflatex, ugly fonts

I'm running Arch Linux x86_64, and writing documents in latex. When I compile with latex and then use dvipdfm, the pdf looks great. However, when I use pdflatex instead, the fonts look somewhat aliased and ugly. I don't know much about latex configuration, and haven't found any references to this problem online. Any suggestions?
$ pacman -Q | grep texlive
texlive-bin 2009.5-2
texlive-core 2009.16776-1

Stefan Husmann wrote:eggplantbren, try to delete fonts in .texlive and /usr/share/texmf-var and regenerate your map files as root running updmap-sys.
Duh, doing this worked for me a couple of times, I guess, erasing .texlive is instinctive for me Good idea.
Just for educational purposes, how do you insert figures? PDF, JPEG? I tried doing this for beamer class, but .eps is still more controllable, because of the bbox.

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