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When I open a PDF in a non-Acrobat PDF viewer, they look fine, but when I open one in Acrobat, the fonts look absolutely terrible. They look very low resolution and I'm not sure how to increase them.

I've tried PDFs from internet, exporting from Word, and making LaTeX documents.

How can I correct this problem?

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Did you make any changes in Adobe Reader? See the below default settings for Page display (go to Edit | Preferences):

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To increase the resolution increase the pixels/inch from the Resolution section

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It was actually the "Smooth Text" option that needed fixing. Thanks! – user1596 Jul 8 '10 at 15:37
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Acrobat uses its own font rendering engine which does horizontal fractional-pixel antialiasing/hinting. As far as I know there's no way to override this.

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So I'm just stuck with ugly, low-res fonts? – user1596 Jun 25 '10 at 1:48
You're stuck with the fonts it gives you. It may be that the engine in your installation has become corrupt and that you should reinstall. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Jun 25 '10 at 1:51
I just checked, and my DVI output looks a lot better than the PDF... Maybe its my LaTeX file. – user1596 Jun 25 '10 at 1:56
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Try opening the file on someone else's computer and see if they have the same issue. If not, the first thing I would try is to uninstall adobe acrobat and then install the latest version. You could also try installing older versions of Adobe reader here: http://www.oldapps.com/adobe_reader.php

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Been looking for a fix to my Adobe Acrobat Pro 8.2.6. PDF file looked fine on my notebook just not on my desktop. I checked the Preferences | Page Display in the dialog shown above. The Smooth Text setting was set to "None". Set it "For Monitor" and this fixed the problem. I tried switching it back to "None" and the problem returned. Tried "For Laptop/LCD Screens" and it looked OK. Left it finally at "For Monitor".

Something must have flipped this setting and caused me to have some problems for a while. Glad it is fixed.

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