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When printing a Document in Word 2013 to PDF (Adobe PDF Printer coming with Acrobat X Pro) or paper chapter numbers get blurred quiet badly. Doing so with Word 2010 on the same Win 7 PC the numbers are fine. Font is Calibri at the moment but this also happens with Arial, TNR, etc. If i use the export function (create pdf/xps) i get the same bad result.

Does anybody know what's wrong here?

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I do not know the reason as to why this happens. It happens to me as well when I use Arial font in Word 2013 when I use the Words' in-built feature to save file as PDF.

There is a workaround for this - but not a solution that I know of.
When you save as PDF - Click on Options - and select ISO 19005_1 compliant PDF/A under the PDF options.
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Note: Selecting this option made the resulting PDF as "un-commentable" - which means if I request someone to review my document, the reviewer cannot post stickys' or draw shapes available under the Adobe Acrobat Commenting tool bar

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Though this question is now >10 years old, the issue can still occur - just happened to me with Word 365 (Microsoft® Word für Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2502 Build 16.0.18526.20168) 64 Bit) / Acrobat Pro (25.1.20474.0).

For me, the following solution from Katie5E90 worked:

  • go to the first heading level where the problem occurs (in the document body, not in the table of contents)
  • select the full chapter number
  • hit Ctrl+space bar (this removes character-level formatting (fonts, italics/bold, font size, etc.) but leaves paragraph formatting (indents, line spacing, etc.) intact.

This solution is also suggested on superuser.com here.

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