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January 20, 2022
Question

InDesign to flipbook blurry fonts

  • January 20, 2022
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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   

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James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
January 20, 2022

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.

Participant
January 20, 2022
thanks
I downloaded their best instructions
I may need a better flipbook if there is one
Participant
January 28, 2022

The chat line was not helpful but The Issuu techs asked for screenshots which they sent back to me. It turns out that my computer was probably ghosting the online image with the one that was sent. I tried a

different browser to send and it seemed to help. I looked at the cloud link on a different computer and it looked good. So my computer waas the problem. So much to learn!