Text rendering for PDFs using Reader 10, 11 in Windows 8

Shortly after a Reader update to 11.02, around March 1st, I noticed that the resolution for text in my PDF files is terrible. It does not get better by zooming in or out. I thought it was the update, but I am having the same problem with v10.
What happened? It was working just great, and now it is hard to read. What did I do?

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