Moorlander

thanks for the very frank reply - on testing this appears to be a viable approach I shall persevere thank you

orig file attached test AD text.afdesign

My favourite print company commented as follows when asked to examine pdfs of the same design from both AD and Illustrator - Illustrator output is the second version he refers to: "This second version does look sharper on screen and actually prints out sharper too, the first one has sort of a halftoned (dotted) edge to it when printed (which gives it the fuzzy look when on screen)."

I am trying to migrate from Adobe Illustrator to AD I created a simple document containing only PDF text exported from Pages and Numbers. Fonts were embedded. The final document was then exported from AD as a PDF when viewed using Preview on Mac the result is blurred until I zoom in whereupon it becomes crisp. the same PDF when viewed using Adobe Reader is sharp all the time. If I create a similar document with previous workflow using Illustrator, the resulting PDF is sharp when viewed in either Preview or Reader I have attached 2 files hoping to illustrate the problem - one has AD in the filename, the other ai (for Illustrator) Any suggestion please? For the time being I'm having to revert to Illustrator (unwillingly) test AD PDF output.pdf test ai PDF output.pdf