: Indesign adding white strokes to stroked text when exporting to PDF I am working on a very basic InDesign project (my first one), and have one trouble that is progressively driving me crazy.

@Berumen635

I understand that it is bad practice to try and make faux bold text in any program, whether Photoshop or Illustrator or Indesign. I understand it, but it is also not realistic to an artist. Sometimes you like fonts that don't have a bold option, but they need to be more readable. What do you do then? So it isn't good to apply faux bold in Photoshop because it is rasterized, however, in Illustrator and Indesign, it is all vector, so I do not see any problem with it.

So, I think I've been able to get around this weird issue with white lines showing up in the PDF when exported. I just Outlined the Type. (This is under Type > Create Outlines) That seems to get rid of it. The type is still vector, it just isn't editable. That's why you always keep an editable version around and go back to it if you need, then re-outline the text. It works for me and no need to choose a different font! Yay!

I hope this helps someone!

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@Murray976

Adding strokes to text to create a feux bold is really bad practice. It would be a much better solution to use a typeface which actually has a bold face.

Check the Reader prefs... Page Display > use Overprint Preview [dropdown] Set that to "Always" It may help the display. Unfortunately, you can't control how other users have their prefs set. You can tell them to make this same switch. But really, the only sure-fire way to prevent this is to use a proper typeface.

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