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April 19, 2009
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Font showing up bolder on some pages

  • April 19, 2009
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Hi,

when I generate a PDF file from my Indesign file, some of the pages end up with the font being noticeably thicker than others.

Please see the attached PDF - pages 4, 7, 8, 10 and 15 have this bolder-looking text on them.

My whole actual PDF file is over 100 pages and this sort of problem occurs on about 25-35% of the pages.

I have no idea what could be causing this.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Chuckee

      Mejor respuesta de artworksg99913146

      I think I have the solution.

      This issue (that some fonts seem bolder in the pdf) is caused by some effect. It can be a drop shadow, an inner shadow, a blending mode option or something like that. And it is happening on the texts that are on the blank areas. Right?

      So the solution is to have the text block filled with white instead of blank.

      I had the same issue for so long but the above solution has worked 100%.

      Cheers, dudes.

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      Kenneth C. Benson
      Kenneth C. Benson
      Inspiring
      April 19, 2009

      Your PDF is still queued, two hours later, but I'd be willing to bet this is a transparency issue. Transparency affects how text is rendered on the screen. It shouldn't affect how it's rendered when printed (although this has also been reported). It's difficult to explain to clients.

      The fix I've read about is to put text on a higher layer than the transparent object, but I haven't been able to make this work. Last time I ran into this I put an empty 99% stroke opacity text box on the master page so that every page had this effect. Better bolder on every page than bolder on some pages.

      Ken Benson

      Kath-H
      Kath-H
      Inspiring
      April 19, 2009

      Turning everything bold is a bit extreme And not very satisfactory. I find the layers solution works well.

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      Anonymous
      April 19, 2009

      Hi again,

      I've determined that every page that has a bolder font on it has either a JPEG or a PSD image inserted on it.

      I also have AI images inserted on other pages, but the text on those pages is fine.

      So... this looks like it is a problem (a bug with the software?) related to the insertion of JPEG/PSD and other images (it also happens with TIFF/PNG files).

      I see it has affected at least one other person who never managed to fix the problem:

      http://forums.adobe.com/message/1294549#1294549

      Things aren't looking good for me... do other people not have a problem when inserting images into their documents? Surely this problem cannot affect everyone like this?

      Also, my knowledge of layers is nonexistent. I've never used them so don't like my chances of having to rework a 120 page document separating all of the text onto another layer (plus, this wouldn't work anyway because all of the images need to remain inline so that future alterations to the text will result in the images staying in the correct place in relation to the text).

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