Text in Acrobat 9 is outlined/traced/highlighted

Lately I've been having a frustrating issue with added text in all documents when using Acrobat 9. Regardless of the font I choose and whether I use the Textbox tool or the Typewriter, any added text appears to have a white trace/outline around it. See photo below. It becomes difficult to read the writing when zoomed out, but if you zoom in very closely to the writing, you can see that there is a very precise and thin line drawn around every letter. This does not really appear on white backgrounds, mainly because this white outline just blends in with the background. I've searched endlessly but can't figure out how to get rid of this. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,
In response to both "...is that normal?" — Yes.
PDF is not a file format meant to support editing of layout/format/etc or text content creation.
You'd master content in an authoring application (FrameMaker, InDesign, MS Word, etc.).
The PDF file is the output of this mastered content.
Some minor touchups are possible with Acrobat (think whiteout/correction tape on a printed piece of paper -- PDF page content is the electronic "finished paper").
With that said, you might play with File > Create PDF > From Blank Page and use the Typewriter tool to enter text.
To output MS Word content to PDF use the Adobe PDFMaker.
Prior to Word 2007, you'd use "Adobe PDF" on the menu line.
With Word 2007, you'd use the Acrobat Ribbon features.
Be well...

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