Fuzzy Bold on Some Computers

[Chuck]

I'm working with a layout that has a large text field. Users on occasion apply formatting to the text in this field, for example, setting the font weight to bold for a heading.

On some computers, this looks great, but others show the font as fuzzy. The font being used is Time New Roman and the Bold checkbox is on in the Format>Text dialog box. On a Mac Book Pro and a Mac Pro, it looks good, but on another Mac Pro, an iMac and a Mac mini, the bold text looks fuzzy. This is true of all of the bold text on the layout, including the bold field labels in Arial.

So far I've been unable to find the commonality between the systems that look good and those that don't. They are all running Mac OS X 10.5.5, the two that look poor are using FileMaker Pro 9.0v3 and the two that look good are using FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Pro Advanced 9.0v3. The fuzziness shows up if physically printed or printed to a PDF.

Any suggestions on how to solve this would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Chuck

[Vaughan]

Check the fonts for corruption.

[Chuck]

According to Font Book's "Validate Font," they are not corrupted. Is there a form of corruption that this will not detect?

[Vaughan]

Check the font smoothing preferences.

Otherwise start some heavy-duty trouble shooting. Create a clean database with the fonts and test. Etc.