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  1. #1
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    Default Page and Layout Designer problem

    I'm hoping that this is the correct place to ask a question about Page and Layout Designer.

    I'm having a problem with the conversion to PDF where if I click "convert text to shapes/curves" some of the letters are bolder than the rest. It seems to be the letters "l and t" mostly. If I don't convert the text comes out fine.

    I do have to do the conversion before going to a print house.

    Any help is appreciated.

    Thanks,

    Peter.

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    Default Re: Page and Layout Designer problem

    Hi Peter

    How does the text look if you print it out on your desktop printer? I find PDF display is not that great. And most fonts will embed in the PDF.
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    Default Re: Page and Layout Designer problem

    MWENZ will know better about this however.

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    Default Re: Page and Layout Designer problem

    Perhaps this will help whilst we are waiting for Mike Wenz's input

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    Egg

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    Default Re: Page and Layout Designer problem

    Yeah, what Egg points to on the Adobe forum.

    Buried in there is the fact that fonts are hinted and that hinting carries through the PDF and the hinting is zoom-level dependent (hinting tries to make fonts look smooth and varies stem thickness according to the point size/zoom levels). Vector graphics are not hinted, which is what text becomes when converted to curves/outlined.

    The only real "cure" as mentioned in the thread is to shut off Enhance thin lines in Reader/Acrobat preferences. Do test the printing. The ugly view should not ever print like that. It is a visual oddity on typically vertical and somewhat horizontal strokes and is mostly noticeable in a text run.

    Mike

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    Default Re: Page and Layout Designer problem

    Thanks for the clarification Mike. Glad you understand it.
    Egg

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