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Jensen Head
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Font rasterization

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When exporting pages of a "live" PDF document, black text borders are framed with color artifacts:
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PDF-XChange Editor — Font rasterization.png
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Is it possible to hope that someday they will stop appearing? I mean the rasterization with anti-aliasing with hinting technology and without subpixel rendering.
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Re: Font rasterization

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Hi Jensen Head,

I have been asked to ask you what method yo are using to
export[ing] pages of a "live" PDF
Can you give us details of how you are doing this export please?
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Re: Font rasterization

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Paul - Tracker Supp wrote: Mon Apr 18, 2022 9:26 pmCan you give us details of how you are doing this export please?
  1. Typed some text lines in Microsoft Word.
  2. Saved the document in PDF format.
  3. Opened document in PDF-XChange Editor.
  4. I selected the "Export to Image(s)…" item on the thumbnails panel in the context menu.
  5. Specified a folder and set the rasterization resolution.
PDF-XChange — Export to Image(s).png
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Examples — https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dS67BsbjvDTXeph84q23E36wdM87_ep2
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Re: Font rasterization

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Thanks for that Jensen Head.

It seems that on export we are not using the "current settings" but some defaults. We will change it to use the settings defined in the Preferences under the Page Display Category, Rendering options:
image.png
That way you can set the desired preferences in there and expect the exported images to reflect these settings. There is no ticket for this, I believe it was a simple change to make and is already done.

I hope that helps.
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Re: Font rasterization  SOLVED

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FSViewer (2025-12-12 19-15-59).webp
Problem solved. Thank you!
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