Typophile

Font problems on PDF.

Jeremiah

Alright this has been plaguing me for years now and I've finally decided to do something about it. If I make a .pages document on Mac and export as PDF when I open on a Windows machine the font (helvetica neue) renders correctly except it seems to be wavy. Certain letters sit higher on the baseline than others, Is there anyway around this, I thought by exporting to PDF it somewhat embeds the font (like image) to the document. Any help or suggestions?

It embeds the font. But Helvetica Neue isn't well hinted* (at least for Windows).
PDF embeds the font proper (not an image of it).
If I remember correctly, there are settings in Adobe Reader to lessen the problem, but I understand it's not practical to share a PDF along some instruction on how to better view it…

* http://typophile.com/node/13964?

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