: Exporting from InDesign to PDF - getting weird issues We have a number of product brochures that we print internally in booklet format using a Ricoh MP C4503 Multi-functional copier. Our document
We have a number of product brochures that we print internally in booklet format using a Ricoh MP C4503 Multi-functional copier.
Our document creation process is to create the document in Adobe InDesign 6
export out to PDF and send the final PDF to print.
The document is using the Google Font OpenSans.
However when we were sending the document to print we were seeing random lines of text within a paragraph look blurry or as if they were being set to bold.
Having searched around forums I found a fix that said change the text colour from CMYK 0,0,0,100 to 100,100,100,100
Now this worked when we printed out the document, however now only on a specific document, when I view a block of text that has been changed to this new 100 black colour the text looks really jagged when viewing the exported PDF on screen? I have the zoom level set to 100% and it is only this one paragraph, all other paragraphs in the document look find after having their colour changed to the 100,100,100,100 colour settings.
Any ideas?
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It can also be caused by the trap setting of images within the document. Sometimes with thin lined fonts indesign will automatically bold the fonts so that they do not have overlayed images bleed into the font making it unrecognizable. This happens even if the image isn't near the fonts. Set the trap settings within photoshop and look to see if they are set within InDesign.
There were a problems with older vesions of InDesign and exporting to PDF in cases, when transparency effects are used in document. That also includes filters on objects. So I'm guessing that your damaged text is actually rasterised image, not a vector letters.
To avoid such errors the only way was to put the text on different layer, not the same as used for transparency effect.
Because I don't have such old version of InDesign anymore, I can't experiment, but installing latest version of Acrobat could also help. Acrobat (even Acrobat Reader) is responsive for «Export as PDF» feature in InDesign so maybe they have fixed this known issue in Acrobat and left it in InDesign.
Changing the colour of the text to a grey colour:
0,0,0,86
Fixed this issue.
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