Text is hard to read in PDFs

I can't figure out why my indesign files are difficult to read as PDF's... I really could use a lesson on typography. I know there are vector fonts... I am using Arial. Is this the problem? It looks blurry. Could it be that my text is white, and background is dark (almost black)?
Helvetica seems to be popular, but I want to make sure I troubleshoot this properly before I go ahead and change the text of a 30+ page document Any ideas?

msinger1 wrote:
...before I go ahead and change the text of a 30+ page document ...
As a side note to this discussion, if you make it a firm practice to use Paragraph Styles and Character Styles for all of your text formatting, it would not matter if it was a 200+ page book, the formatting changes could be done in moments by adjusting the styles. (of course, you would still have to check for awkward reflow or overset).

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