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PDF Font Considerations

When you create a document in an authoring application, a little time spent choosing fonts can produce a better-looking document. Try to avoid highly stylized fonts with long swooping curves. They may look great printed, but they often don’t display properly on monitors. If you choose a large bold font, the center of characters such as a, o, and p fill in and are hard to read, unless the user greatly magnifies the PDF document. When you’re in doubt about whether a particular font style will display well in Acrobat, create a test document in the authoring application using every character from the font set in both uppercase and lowercase. Convert the document to PDF format and view the document in Acrobat at 100-percent ...