![]() Taken with cell phone in bad light, and tight crop to emphasize the difference. I have attached photos of text printed from Wordperfect file and text printed from Affinity. I did learn to choose "all pages" and not "all spreads" after getting little 8.5 x 11 inch spreads with facing pages! Yes I have printed to pdf -no improvement. Hopefully you can find what settings I have wrong, or even find where I am telling the software to rasterize without realizing it. ![]() Yes, it's back to Cambria, because changing to Times New Roman didn't help. I want to work out the font problem before placing equations and illustrations. The rasterization appears most clearly in the subscripts. I only mention that to explain why the file date is now 2020. I'm attaching the old pdf, which I had been trying to update using Adobe Acrobat DC -but the changes I needed to make were too extensive. I cannot figure out why the letters are coming out rasterized. Just regular 10 pt font with subscripts and superscripts. I haven't created any layers, nothing placed behind the font. I can zoom in until the 10 pt font looks 6 inches high, and it's still perfectly sharp -onscreen. I print from within Affinity. Onscreen looks great. The option comes up in at least three places. In the new file with Affinity I've selected 600 DPI everywhere I can. At that time I had not heard of pdf files. I recall it made the book look much better, but I don't recall if it only affected the graphics, or if it affected the text also. I used 600 dpi resolution in creating the original document in the late 90's. The low quality is obvious even without reading glasses. I experimented by changing the text to Times New Roman -it came out just as bad. In the new document in Affinity I am using Cambria, regular, 10 pt font provided with Windows 10. The original document used Times New Roman, regular, 10 pt provided with Windows 95. The font looks perfectly sharp both in Times New Roman and in Cambria. I've also printed from the WordPerfect file mentioned as the intermediate step between the old pdf and Affinity. Within Affinity I setup paragraph styles and switched all the text to new paragraph style with Cambria font. (Find and replace all those extra carriage returns after each line.) Ultimately went with select and paste into Affinity. I imported the plain text file into Affinity and learned to never do that again. I converted the first section in Wordperfect into plain text. I cut and pasted the pdf text into WordPerfect. That is the file that prints great even when viewed with 3.25x power reading glasses from inches away. All I have from that is the pdf file made from Pagemaker. The original document was created in Pagemaker 5.0 and is long gone. The original document was created in Windows 95. ![]() I'm printing both files on the same laser printer. When I print the new document from Affinity, essentially a rewrite of the same document, same font, the font is rasterized. ![]() When I print my old pdf file from the year 2000 or so, the font is perfectly sharp even when viewed with 3.25x cheater glasses. Not sure where I am telling Affinity to do that. New rewrite in Affinity publisher, same font, same printer, comes out rasterized. Old pdf file prints great, nice sharp font. ![]()
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