Distorted font when exporting to pdf

I'm using Tahoma font and trying to bold certain sections. The bolded portions look odd (strange little boxes and fill is not quite solid) when exported to pdf and viewed digitally, The printed document is just fine however. The bolded portion, when viewing with acrobat pro, or adobe reader is just not crisp. I had adjusted the stroke setting of the bolded portions and thought this might be the problem, so I have tried bolding using both the regular font "Tahoma bold" and also using "Tahoma Regular" and increasing the stroke. The effect is the same.
As the document will be both printed and viewed online, I want to make sure that I am sending something that will be viewed as crisply and professionally as possible, no matter how it is viewed.
Any ideas what my problem might be?

I wondered if that was my problem so I changed everything back to regular "tahoma bold' but I still have the problem. I'll attach a screen capture

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