Acrobat page display is clunky

I'm using Acrobat X and my PDFs print perfectly, but the page display is clunky. Fonts and rules look about twice as thick as they really are. This is not good when sending PDFs to clients as proofs. Also, at actual size or a couple of sizes up, any gradients show a line at the fade-out edge – a line that really isn't there.

Hi,
Could you please check the option 'Enhance thin lines' it is checked or not?
Edit-Preferences-Page Display-Enhance thin lines
If it is checked then uncheck it and check the behaviour.
Also, is it happening with all the documents?
Regards,
Anand

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On Dec 27, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Phillip Jones wrote:
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Dear everyone
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http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/support/sep_usermanual.pdf
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