Why do fonts show different on monitor?

I'm creating a PDF out of Indesign CS4. There are some paragraphs formatted bold, which show up differently on the monitor.
This appears also when I take a screenshot, so does not depend on the monitor itself.
Also, both are based on the same paragraph style, so basically no setup differences.
The printouts match!
Can anybody tell me, why this happens?
Many thanks!
P.S.: Seemed as if the figure was modified a little bit by upload restrictions, so
here's another one:

The glyphs are described by mathematical functions, there is no ambiguity if it is the same font.
If the text is immediately embedded as a raster graphic (opposed to keeping text as vector in
an exported PDF), then it is impossible to represent the accurate shape by only few pixels
(10pt, 72ppi: very few pixels; 10pt, 288ppi; four times more in both directions).
Therefore Photoshop can apply anti-aliasing: None, Sharp, Crisp, Strong, Smooth. The names
don't say much, but the appearance is different. You may try which mode is your best choice.
Best regards --Gernot Hoffmann

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