Fuzzy Text

I have created a pdf from Jpegs produced in Photoshop but the text appears blurry in the PDF
Font is didot.
What is the best way to output from photoshop for pdfs.
They are for use on the web and for e-mail despatch
cheers
Brandon

No argument, Aandi. I don't set type in Photoshop unless it's large in size, small in quantity and in need of some Effect.
But the fact is, unless the user actually performs an operation that rasterizes the type, a PDF Saved from Photoshop really DOES retain the type as vectors AND includes the fonts... it doesn't convert to outlines. This is even true (believe it or not) using the Smallest File Size PDF preset.

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