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Wait a minute. Talk about the power of suggestion. I now see no improvement in the Adobe text when I uncheck ClearType, but checking it makes text in Word much clearer.

ClearType is a Microsoft product. Using it is actually supposed to improve the font's readability. It appears that ClearType isn't used in Adobe products. CoolType is the equivalent Abode product. I can't find any reference to Adobe using CoolType in Adobe Reader for Pocket PC 2.0. In fact, as we are seeing the whole pixel aliasing, it is not likely that the sub pixel Cooltype aliasing is used in our Reader. And so far I've not found a way of turning off whole pixel aliasing in our Reader either. Am I right?

Actually Microsoft developed ClearType specifically for tiny LCD screens such as Pocket PCs, but it appears that Adobe has decided to rather offer CoolType for large monitors where it isn't really needed.

Here is text from the Adobe site on CoolType.

To combat the "jaggies," traditional grayscale font anti-aliasing (also called "font smoothing") technology smoothes out text by filling in the edges of bitmapped characters with various shades of gray pixels, which can make text at small point sizes appear blurry. CoolType creates clearer, crisper type using a font-rendering technique called color anti-aliasing, which works on digital liquid crystal display (LCD) screens such as those in laptops, handheld devices, and flat-panel desktop monitors. Unlike conventional anti-aliasing, which manipulates only whole pixels, CoolType controls the individual red, green, and blue subpixels on a digital LCD screen. <http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/cooltype.html>