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					Originally Posted by alanine  Interesting, I wonder why they did this in the first place? kind of stupid if you ask me. | 
	
 Well, when you choose a font for your documents you don't always assume that people will someday try to display it with only a couple bits of depth... unless I'm misunderstanding what you are saying.  I think a lot of rich fonts are designed today with 8-bits of gray (256 grays - maybe someone more familiar w/ fonts can comment).
In any case you'll want to process pdf's with PDFLRF (see my post above).  It really is amazing.
Have fun,
Mike