I created a document that includes quite a bit of reversed text. I recently read a suggestion somewhere (I thought it was in the June issue of InDesign Magazine, but I couldn’t find it again) to add a very narrow stroke to reversed text to make it stand out better. I used this trick in my document, and it definitely improves legibility in the printed document.
Unfortunately when I exported to PDF, the reversed text looked awful. When I blow the PDF up to 600%, you can see that on some of the letters the stroke didn’t export solidly, but let some of the background color bleed through. If I use Acrobat’s Outline Font function, the bleed-through issue is corrected, but the fonts still look awful on screen. I have posted both PDFs here (https://bit.ly/2ayLQmC)-I had to scroll to 600% to see the “ghosted” outlines.
I need to be able to create a document that people can proof via PDF (as I am working with folks in other offices), but that will be effective when printed.
Any advice?
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