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I needed to download a pdf version of this book: http://www.earth.illinois.edu/sustain/sustainability_text.html but when I use Adobe Reader the text is super-faint and a pain to read on my computer. What is causing it? Is it the reader or my computer? How can I fix it so I can read the textbook comfortably?

Win 7 Pro.

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  • It looks like crap on my computer too.
    – Nifle
    Commented Aug 18, 2012 at 9:34
  • It looks like it is is not the reader or the computer, but the display on both is just as bad.
    – Rory Alsop
    Commented Aug 18, 2012 at 10:08
  • @RoryAlsop: on both?
    – verve
    Commented Aug 18, 2012 at 10:19
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    @verve - I meant to say: have tried it in foxit and adobe. both as bad as each other.
    – Rory Alsop
    Commented Aug 18, 2012 at 11:23

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The PDF uses PostScript Type 3 fonts, which PDF reader have problems rendering. You should contact the author and tell him to recreate the PDF with Type 1 fonts. If he has questions, point him to tex.sx (since he uses TeX).

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  • What's TeX? And, it is the source that's the problem for sure?
    – verve
    Commented Aug 22, 2012 at 8:56
  • @verve: TeX is the software used to produce that PDF. The author uses wrong settings.
    – Martin Schröder
    Commented Aug 22, 2012 at 12:16

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