Hi Bill,

I’ve only now read this thread. Were the PDFs you are having the text quality 
with when printed, created in Pages Application?
If so, try this:

In Pages:
1. Go to “File >  Print”
2. When the dialogue box appears, click on “PDF”
3. Select “Save As Postscript”
4. Then double-click to open this file  “xxxx.ps” and it will convert itself to 
a PDF
5. Then name it & save it as a PDF using Preview ( it will be showing Format: 
PDF)

Cheers,
Ronni

On 02/07/2011, at 10:35 AM, Bill Parker wrote:

> 
> I think I have it.  I tested your idea Merv and that worked.   But looking at 
> my main work doc this past week - a 48 page mag, it has to be sent LOW res to 
> actually get to me and there the problem lies!   Its just that I dislike 
> proof reading on screen.
> 
> 
> Many thanks all.
> Bill
> On 01/07/2011, at 9:20 PM, Merv Bond wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Bill
>> Recently I have received documents that are in say, Times New Roman, but the 
>> characters appear "ragged".
>> If I select all and then set the font to Times New Roman Regular all is 
>> well. This occurs when the original text is sent as Times New Roman 
>> postscript.
>> Give it a go.
>> Merv
>> 
>> On Fri1Jul2011 Fri1Jul6:18 PM, cm wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Bill,
>>> 
>>> I'm still not entirely clear. Is it unreadable gobbledegook or are the 
>>> letters correct but badly printed. When I say you could have the printer 
>>> set to draft quality, that is a per document decision that you can make in 
>>> the print dialog. MS Word, for instance, may be using its own print dialog 
>>> and setting the printer to high quality, but when you use the OS X print 
>>> dialog, you may have draft mode selected.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Carlo
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>> 
>>> On 01/07/2011, at 17:57, Bill Parker<re...@westnet.com.au>  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Carlo The text is mostly unreadable, but NOT for MS Word and several other 
>>>> softwares.  So I think it is not the printer.
>>>> Bill
>>>> On 01/07/2011, at 5:49 PM, cm wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Bill,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Not sure I can help but what do you mean by poor quality? Is it that the 
>>>>> text badly laid-out or is it that he individual letters are rough?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Could it be that you have your printer set to draft quality?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Carlo
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 2011-07-01, at 17:08, Bill Parker wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I wonder if I have some settings wrong?   Whether using Adobe Acrobat 8 
>>>>>> pro or Preview, I cannot print PDf text at anything like decent quality. 
>>>>>>  The printer is a Canon MX310.   Done a few miles  but all other 
>>>>>> softwares print fine.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Bill




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