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August 20, 2016
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Font turns extremely sharp/edgy since one of the latest Acrobat Updates

  • August 20, 2016
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Version: Adobe Acrobat DC 15.017.20053

Winver: 1511 (10586.545)

Recently I noticed that all my PDFs including externally received PDFs are viewed overly sharp (with default fonts like Arial). It looks extremely ugly at div. magnification levels, better at 100% but still spacing looks weird.

Happend on two different devices (PC and Laptop). In my memory, the PDFs always looked better. Word documents and other texts (like here) look way better. What could be the cause? Did not make any relevant system changes lately.

Examples:

75 %

100 %

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Correct answer Adorobat

Hi G.Petermeir ,

Try to perform the steps given in the following links :

Adobe Reader text not clear or sharp (Acrobat Reader)

DC fonts appear ugly. How can they be changed?

Let us know if it worked.

Thank You,

Shivam

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Adorobat
AdorobatCorrect answer
Participating Frequently
August 24, 2016

Hi G.Petermeir ,

Try to perform the steps given in the following links :

Adobe Reader text not clear or sharp (Acrobat Reader)

DC fonts appear ugly. How can they be changed?

Let us know if it worked.

Thank You,

Shivam

Participating Frequently
September 10, 2016

Actually Preferences > Page Display > Rendering > Smooth Text: For Monitor solved the Problem.

But I don't know, how and why this setting got active, especially on two machines. Moreover Resolution is set to Custom 110 instead of Use system settings. I never changed these options so I would like to reset Acrobat to default settings. How do I reset it?

Inspiring
September 10, 2016

Some updates to computer systems or programs reset some user settings.