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Font thickness in InDesign CC 20

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December 10, 2020
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Hello,

I have been working on a project in Indesign CC 19 and for some reason, I have to convert them to a higher version of CC 20.

When I do this. I notice the thickness of the font has been changed in CC 20 converted file.

I have attached a sample pdf file of both CC19 and CC20, where you can notice the change.

Name of the font: Seven One Eight-Extra Thin (OTF)

CC19 Version : 14.0.3

CC20 Version : 15:0.2

Since this thickness change is shown in pdf visual comparison, we need to convince the customer what is the potential cause. It will be helpful if somebody can answer what goes wrong here.

Thank you,

Nesan J

IndesignCC19_Output.pdf

IndesignCC20_Output.pdf

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user2198318Author

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Hello All,

Thank you for all response and study on this subject.

I was unaware that a stroke was applied to the text. Basically, stroke is not part of the style. Now I have corrected them.

But, one thing nudges me. Why I see the difference in thickness level when the stroke value is the same in both CC19 and CC20 versions. I'm not sure this something that happens with this particular font or any conversation issue between 19 and 20.

I have attached, a screengrab of the stroke value from the live file, and the output pdf.

Any answer will be helpful to understand the issue happening during conversion.

Thank you

Compare video link, which shows thickness difference.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xHotJijIQQT7qZZCBA_t1lj_1ztLJ7yC/view?usp=sharing

rob day

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As Eugene pointed out your PDF has 2 text objects—there are likely two copies of the AGNES text at the same X, Y position. You can check via the Layers panel:

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user2198318Author

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Hi Rob,

Sorry, I don't see any two layers in original InDesign file or output pdf

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Eugene Tyson

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If any of the answers are helpful or correct let me know - we can mark them as correct or you can do that yourself.

Great answers and good detective work here guys!

Luke Jennings3

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It appears the CC19 version has a separate vector object creating the stroke, above the live type, hopefully that can help you identify its source. One possible explanation would be the stroke is on a separate layer and you are exporting all layers in CC19 and just the live type layer in CC20?

rob day

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Hi Luke, I think any stroke amount greater than 0 applied to the text will show as Stroked Text in Acrobat. Here the top A has a .1pt stroke applied in InDesign, and the bottom version has the stroke set to 0:

Luke Jennings3

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Hi Rob, normal stroked live text should remain as one object, the sample PDF has two objects, one of which is not live type, which is odd, suggesting it was done with some intent, or possibly by an automated workflow (trapping, for example), although the document properties description should indicate this. I can envision a scenario where a client said "show me a version with thin type and one slightly thicker" so the designer made a layer with slightly stroked text (outlined so the stroke alignment can include align stroke to inside). This doesn't explain why the CC19 PDF is different from the CC20 PDF.