This seems to be an old an ongoing issue. Text getting jagged when exported to PDF. I've had this problem since I can remember myself and each time it appears out of nowhere. I can have text sitting next to eachother, one chunk renders very jagged and full of artifacts and the other looks fine in the same export with the same typeface, weight and color etc. Even within the same textframe! There's no obvious reason, it just happens. I've tried everything. The text comes out terrible no matter what. Looks fine inside ID but terrible in the PDF. Tried all sorts of view settings in my reader, settings in ID, settings in the export, settings all over the place. Tried online readers, local readers, old reader versions, new ones, tried with and without text style applied, tried numerous typefaces, tried viewing on different machines with different OS, different monitors, tried uninstalling ID to see if the problem goes away again, tried reading millions of support threads etc. There's no answer to this for me. This typeface issue is a true monster. It happens suddenly after exporting the same file a hundred times, then all of a sudden it starts failing as described. Just out of the blue. Nothings changed in the file itself. Everything is the same except the export result. I bet this thing goes away in a couple of months, just like its done before. I'm starting to suspect theres a serious bug in InDesign that comes and goes with updates. What else can it be?! I'm on W10. ALL up to date. Any final solution to this Adobe?! Any eureka moments over at Adobe HQ lately? From what I can read on numerous posts online there's seems to be a gazillion different cases of this tiring type export illness. Like a virus that mutates into different type of errors.
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