Reply To: Transparent picture makes text appear bold

May 11, 2020 at 7:08 am #1249835

Keymaster

As others have pointed out, this is usually due to “transparency flattening” for older printers (or when you export to an old PDF version, such as “acrobat 4”. If you export to PDF/X-4, and your printer has a RIP that can handle this, then you should not have this problem anymore.

Tim Cole and Rufus Deuchler did a very funny video about this many years ago:
https://indesignsecrets.com/stop-the-transparencide.php

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