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drmrbrewer
drmrbrewer
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Fonts not displaying correctly

Jun 21, 2012 2:39 PM

Categories: Windows

I have Acrobat 9.5.1, and recently the text within the vast majority of documents I'm trying to display on screen, from a variety of different sources, just look awful.. as if it's substituting some 1980s pixellated non-scalable screen font.  I've not had this problem before, since pdfs usually display pretty accurately and zoom nicely, so I can't believe that somehow suddenly I'm viewing lots of pdfs that are using non-standard fonts that aren't embedded.  It's just ordinary stuff I'm viewing, like instruction manuals and so on.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks.

522 Views   3 Replies   Latest reply: drmrbrewer, Jun 21, 2012 11:46 PM
 
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  • Sandeep V.
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    1. Sandeep V.,
    Jun 21, 2012 4:21 PM   in reply to drmrbrewer
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    Try this:

    Open Acrobat

    Edit ->Preferences->Page Display

    Change the option under Smooth Text Drop-down.

     

    Generally re-launch is not required but you can surely try.

     
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  • itsme3018
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    2. itsme3018,
    Jun 21, 2012 7:00 PM   in reply to Sandeep V.
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    Hi there! is it working now? hope this helps: Could you have set the font to something small in your browser settings by mistake? If you are using Firefox, can you try selecting View → Zoom → Reset in the toolbar?

     

    [Moderator's Note: Removing the web address]

     
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  • drmrbrewer
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    3. drmrbrewer,
    Jun 21, 2012 11:46 PM   in reply to Sandeep V.
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    Great answer.  This works (as in setting Smooth Text under Preferences).  Thanks.  Not sure why one would ever not want smooth text, but never mind... thanks for helping out.

     
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