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Subject:Re: poor quality of on screen pdf From:Goober <techcommgoober -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 3 Jun 2002 22:58:16 -0700 (PDT)
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> Can anyone tell me why the PDFs I create look fine
> when printed out, but
> terrible on screen? I don't really have any images
> in them, but the fonts
> are fuzzy and the flow charts have some thick lines
> and graininess..... I've
> recently upgraded to Acrobat 5 (on Windows 2000) so
> I thought that would do
> the trick, but it hasn't. A lot my audience is
> likely going to want to just
> view this stuff on screen as a quick reference,
> especially some of the flow
> charts.
>
> I've played around with the Distiller settings for
> the past half hour and
> cannot make a better looking on screen PDF - any
> ideas?
>
> Your help is very much appreciated, thanks!
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