Thread: EPUB to PDF odd letter spacing
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Old 01-27-2015, 05:21 AM   #6
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That can happen if the font family does not have an actual bold face, so that the text rendering engine uses simulated bold, which means basically drawing the characters twice with a slight offset. This looks pretty bad in PDF.
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