InDesign to flipbook blurry fonts

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I have been trying to get a high quality magazine started using Issuu as the flip book. Some text and gaphics come out perfect.

Text that is bold is blurry, I used open office Impress originally and got better results, but it was really painful. I love the InDesign features but hope to improve to a high quality. I also noted some pages are better than others. I was also wondering if internet quality on a momnetary basis is an issue while uploading. Thanks

James Gifford—NitroPress · Answer

Issuu appears (from glancing at its support page) to use the common practice of substituting its own fonts and applying transformations (bold, italic) when the fonts in the original document aren't uploaded or (possibly) aren't properly licensed. So it creates its own bold face from the base font, and unsurprisingly it's of low quality.

I'd review Issuu's technical support notes thoroughly and make sure you are creating PDFs that meet their standards — which may be out of step with more general standards.

I also note that Issuu will blur pages in free previews. If you're posting your stuff for paid access, and a few pages are fine and the rest blurred, that's probably it.

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