RE: PDFs vs. Word for crispness

["Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com>]

Thanks, I'm on it.

 

 

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From: Fred Ridder [mailto:docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com] 
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 4:22 PM
To: Cardimon, Craig; Techwr-l
Subject: RE: PDFs vs. Word for crispness

 

Craig (ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com) asked:

> Any idea why a PDF would NOT be as clear as the Word doc from which 
> was generated?
 
Certainly. Acrobat uses a font smoothing algorithm that strives to
present
all fonts as closely as possible to the way the type designer intended.
To 
do this on a low-res device (like a monitor) it uses gray pixels where
an
accurately rendered glyph occupies only a portion of the pixel's area.
The net result is text that looks "soft" because it's not just black
pixels.
If you don't like the softening, go to Edit>Preferences, choose the
Page Display category, then de-select the "Smooth text" option. 
And note that this is strictly a display issue. When you print the PDF,
the text should be every bit as crisp as it is from whatever app 
originated the source document.
 
Fred Ridder

 

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