It's a feature! See my advice on #5 on this thread as I was thinking that you had a bitmap with text. This has always been one of the silly quirks of Xara. Just re-import your PDF and adjust K value and resave. For any bitmap that you want to be commercially printed you should start this process off in a Bitmap editor. You can use Grayscale or Lab but the best way is to using the "channel mixing" route. Just do a quick search "colour to BW + channel mixing". The reason for using this method you have much more control of the output and therefore better definition. Here a tut for P/Shop but I am sure that you could do the same in Gimp which is free to download: http://www.photoshopessentials.com/p...olor-channels/