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Using Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Version 9.0.0, I have "Preferences -> Page Display -> Rendering -> Smooth Text" set to "For Laptop/LCD screens." This setting initially give me a beautifully rendered ArialMT/TrueType. This is the "Actual Font" used for Helvetica in a PDF I am reading. As I scroll through the document however, later pages render the font with a heavier line thickness, making them look bolder. I find that if I resize the program window then the thinkness returns to the initial width and looks good. I can repeat this cycle. In the end the work-around is for me to resize the program window for each page I read. This is a bit tedious. I don't have the behavior with Smooth Text turned off. I am running Vista with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT. The "Use 2D graphics acceleration" option does not affect the behavior so I don't know that the graphics card is a factor here.
Has anyone else experienced this inconsistency with the line thinkness of the font smoothing? Is there a fix or something I should look at to debug?

It seems that this problem is limited to a specific PDF file. This leads me to suspect that it is the font that causes the problem. Based on the Font properties reported by Acrobat it seems that it is using the standard Arial font which should work reliably. Is there a way to get more detailed information about the fonts being used by Acrobat for the file?

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