Powerpoint issue: fonts are too heavy

[Crumpy]

I'm not sure if this is going to be easy to explain, but I'm noticing
in PP 2008, the fonts seem "heavy" The regular font of any face seems
like it's *slightly* bold. I noticed this first on a Keynote import,
but now that I pay more attention to it, it's on all fonts, even on
slides I create in Powerpoint entirely.

I thought it was just "one of those things" in Powerpoint, until I was
messing around with the custom animations. While the animation (like
the letter-by-letter effect) is running, the font has the correct
weight. The extra bolding is applied after the slide finishes
building.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I'm not sure if this is going to be easy to explain, but I'm noticing
in PP 2008, the fonts seem "heavy" The regular font of any face seems
like it's *slightly* bold. I noticed this first on a Keynote import,
but now that I pay more attention to it, it's on all fonts, even on
slides I create in Powerpoint entirely.

I thought it was just "one of those things" in Powerpoint, until I was
messing around with the custom animations. While the animation (like
the letter-by-letter effect) is running, the font has the correct
weight. The extra bolding is applied after the slide finishes
building.

Anyone have any ideas?

Might the text have a very slight drop-shadow? If the offest is small
enough, it might give that kind of effect.

 

[Crumpy]

Might the text have a very slight drop-shadow?  If the offest is small
enough, it might give that kind of effect.

I looked. If anything, I thought it was an extra stroke on the fonts.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I looked. If anything, I thought it was an extra stroke on the fonts.

Just to be sure: there are two ways text can be shadowed ... using the
normal Shadow formatting option on the text itself and by using the shadow
drawing tool, same as you'd use to apply a shadow to rectangles and the
like.

Might want to check both.