Bad quality footer in PDF export

I have been using pages for a while and find it really handy for the day to day's work. But I found an apparent limitation:
I often use footers that are really small (8pt) and in a light font (Helvetica Neue light). When I export my file to PDF (both, with the PDF export functionality and with via the printer and "safe as pdf ..."), the quality of the footer is always really bad - like with a bad resolution. The rest of the text is ok, just the footer ... what could that be?
Tanks for any help.

I'm having the same problem. Creating a PDF (print->preview, export, or print->save as pdf) for a document that contains any font sized 8 point or lower results in really poor quality output... blocky non anti-aliased fonts.
This happens with multiple fonts (Helvetica, Helvetica Neue, Garamond, Futura, etc). Raising the size to 9 point or greater gives high quality output.

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