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Why are some pages in my PDF coming out bold?

I have searched all over and cannot seem to find anyone else even mentioning this problem. I created a conference paper fully formatted using the conference's template in LaTeX (MikTeX/TeXworks on Windows). It looks just fine in the TeXWorks previewer, but when I open the document with Adobe Reader, the second and 7th pages (out of 8 total) are entirely in bold, including all of the text and captions. The figures appear unaffected.

I can't come up with any reason this would happen, but it was happening before when I used a different template, as well. The document source is relatively simple, and there aren't any commands in there to do anything like this. The document displayed this way on both computers I tested it on, and it prints just fine, too. Does anyone know what this happens when I try to view it in Adobe Reader? Is it just a bug with my version (10.1.2)?

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  • Maybe something messed up with some \thispagestyle{empty} when you begin a chapter or something like that. Page style is always set to default on first page of a chapter, so maybe you will need to override the default page style instead of using another one. – Christopher Chiche Jan 18 '12 at 18:50
  • @ChrisJamesC This would make sense, I think, but this isn't the first page of a chapter or any sort of special page, they are just 'normal' pages (I'm not using chapters here). At the start of the document the template had \thispagestyle{plain} \pagestyle{plain} but those are the only instances of that command in this document. Does that make sense? –  Jan 18 '12 at 19:01
  • If I were you I would try to remove stuff in your header/instructions until the bug "disappears" and then search on it or tell in comments. (I am not an expert on this subject but this is how I usually do with latex) – Christopher Chiche Jan 18 '12 at 19:30
  • Sorry, I was unaware of that site until now. Also, after just changing around some of my captions (text changes only, no formatting), this issue went away. I think it might just be a strange bug with Adobe Reader and how it is interpreting the file, and not actually related to LaTeX. Otherwise possibly LaTeX misplaces a character in the file in some rare instances. So my guess is that there isn't a solution to this, you just have to play around with it until it changes enough to disappear. –  Jan 18 '12 at 19:56
  • did you delete the .aux files? Sometimes it comes from there. I'm glad your problem is solved. – Christopher Chiche Jan 18 '12 at 22:09
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    This question is very similar to http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/141/why-are-some-pages-in-my-pdf-coming-out-bold. Please take a look at it as the information there might help you. If so, that's great, and we'll probably close this question as a duplicate just to keep the place tidy and to help people find answers quickly. – doncherry Jan 19 '12 at 21:52
  • Thanks for moving this. @doncherry you're right, that solved my problem. Thanks a lot! All I had to do was remove any transparency from my images (I just put a white background in using photoshop), but I also had to convert some of them to jpegs rather than pngs, but it still worked. Thanks! – tsteiner Jan 20 '12 at 04:47
  • @tsteiner: You're welcome. I'll now vote to close this question. – doncherry Jan 20 '12 at 09:33

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