Drop Shadow pdf issue

Hi there
I'm trying to export a High Quality print Photoshop pdf with 7.5pt Helvetica LT Std white text with a 0.1mm drop shadow. The problem is that when I export it the drop shadow comes out unevenly (some letters/words/lines are bolder than others). I have tried changing font to Gautami, and also reducing the shadow to 0.075mm but with no joy. I have tried it in Illustrator and InDesign as well but with the same result.
Has anyone come across this before or got any ideas?
Cheers
Sean

Just to make sure: The issue persists at larger zoom values?
I am not sure but it might be an unfortunate combination of type/vector and pixels.
If you could tolerate a sharp shadow one possible workaround might be to duplicate the Type Layer, make the lower one black and offset it manually.
Another possibility would be to use
Type > Convert to Shape
and check if the shadow goes better with this in the pdf. Of course the text would not be searchable anymore …

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