Exporting to PDF - incorrect alignment of text boxes

I am exporting reports to PDF format, but they are consistently different to how they look in Crystal Reports. I am having to "mis align" text boxes in crystal to ensure they line up when exported to PDF format - it is taking hours and is a hopelessly inefficient way to design a report. I have seen previous posts relating to this issue, but can't seem to find any solution. Can any-one help me?
Thanks for any suggestions.

Hi Marita,
Which Crystal Reports version are you using?
Have you applied any service pack for Crystal Reports?
Which operating system are you using?
Try with this:
Go to the following registry sub key:
HKEY_USERS\[your security profile]\Software\Crystal Decisions\10.2\Crystal Reports\Export\Pdf
Right-click the sub key and click New > DWORD Value. Name the DWORD value "ForceLargerFonts" and set it to the value of 1.
Regards,
Shweta

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