font resolution

I've created a business card and had it printed in an office supply store
copy center. The font I used was Arial. The lettering appeared to be fuzzy.
On close examination, I'd describe the font as being comprised of many
little boxes giving a stair-stepped appearance on rounded or diagonal parts
of letters. How do I avoid this and get a smooth edge on the letters?

How did you save the card before you sent it to the printer? If you saved the
card as a picture what you are seeing is a bitmap phenomenon. Can you save as a
PDF? If you have 2007 Microsoft has a save as PDF add-in.
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...displaylang=en

or if you have earlier versions there are free converters, do a search.

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Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/

"Doris" wrote in message
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I've created a business card and had it printed in an office supply store
copy center. The font I used was Arial. The lettering appeared to be fuzzy.
On close examination, I'd describe the font as being comprised of many
little boxes giving a stair-stepped appearance on rounded or diagonal parts
of letters. How do I avoid this and get a smooth edge on the letters?