I notice that there's some rendering problem on some PDF files.
I bought FlexiPDF 2022 from Ashampoo and preordered 2025 version, and I tried trial verion of FlexiPDF 2025 from official site. Both 2022 and 2025 cannot render it correctly.
This is the PDF file I using to test PDF reader or editors.
Rendering problem on some PDF files.
Re: Rendering problem on some PDF files.
Please share some more details of the problem like where exactly you are getting this problem, screenshot of the problem etc.
Re: Rendering problem on some PDF files.
I just encountered an issue with rendering through the FlexiPDF virtual printer from Microsoft Word.
I participate fairly regularly on an Internet forum for authors. A forum member recently posted about not being able to find a font that seems to be a perfect match for a printed book whose interior design (typesetting) he wanted to emulate. The font was Garamond, but he said all the versions he tried looked a little lighter than the book whose appearance he wanted to match. He then discovered a feature in Microsoft Word that allows using an outline to increase the visual thickness of the strokes in a font.
This was news to me so, of course, I had to try it. I created a sample paragraph in Word, used the Text Effects feature to add an outline with a line thickness of 0.25 points, and then converted to PDF using three different methods:
In the interest of a direct comparison, all three screen shots were made with the sample PDFs opened in Adobe Reader XI.
Word export to PDF:
DoPDF7 virtual printer:
FlexiPDF 2022 virtual printer:
The quality of the "enhanced" text is worse in each successive sample. The degradation of the character rendering becomes even more apparent at larger degrees of enlargement.
I participate fairly regularly on an Internet forum for authors. A forum member recently posted about not being able to find a font that seems to be a perfect match for a printed book whose interior design (typesetting) he wanted to emulate. The font was Garamond, but he said all the versions he tried looked a little lighter than the book whose appearance he wanted to match. He then discovered a feature in Microsoft Word that allows using an outline to increase the visual thickness of the strokes in a font.
This was news to me so, of course, I had to try it. I created a sample paragraph in Word, used the Text Effects feature to add an outline with a line thickness of 0.25 points, and then converted to PDF using three different methods:
- Word Export to PDF
- Print to the PDF using DoPDF7
- Print to PDF using the FlexiPDF virtual printer
In the interest of a direct comparison, all three screen shots were made with the sample PDFs opened in Adobe Reader XI.
Word export to PDF:
DoPDF7 virtual printer:
FlexiPDF 2022 virtual printer:
The quality of the "enhanced" text is worse in each successive sample. The degradation of the character rendering becomes even more apparent at larger degrees of enlargement.