Poor font rendering when viewed on windows?

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    Default Poor font rendering when viewed on windows?

    Some fonts I'm using in PDFs I'd created with Acrobat for Mac are rendering very poorly when viewed on-screen on windows machines. Magnifying to 200% or more everything is fine, but at 100% there are visible distortions in some or most letters. Printed documents are fine.

    Helvetica Neue Light 9-point looks the worst of the fonts I've tried. I'm using the pdf printer using standard settings, Acrobat 7.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.4.2, viewed on Acrobat 6.0/WinXP. Embed all fonts and smoothing is on by default.

    One of the reasons I upgraded to Acrobat was because I was having a similar problem with the Quartz engine in OS X. But Acrobat doesn't look any better and I'm wondering whether I wasted my money.

    Anyone had experience tweaking setting to get good on-screen results?
    Steven_F._Wilson@adobeforums.com Guest

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    Default Re: Poor font rendering when viewed on windows?

    It may be that the Windows user either doesn't have the proper text
    smoothing options set.

    Mike
    MikeKazlow@adobeforums.com Guest

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