Display of bold characters unreadable

Start by reproducing the issue in Xreader 2.2.3 with a PDF using the reported Custom-Metrics-24 fonts and compare its bold rendering with the same file in Foxit Reader. No source files or tests are named; done means the affected bold characters are readable while remaining bold, and the behavior is verified across the described PDF variants.

 * Xreader version 2.2.3
 * Distribution - Mint Cinnamon 19.2 LTS, Linux kernel 4.15.0-123-lowlatency.

Issue
Display of bold characters is nearly unreadable in a bank produced PDF report. Bold style makes the characters blurry and character lines are too big which hides white space. For example, a character 6 and a character 8 have no white space in the circle that make the characters.

Verified multiple PDF files.

1. Many PDF files with the problem had the following characteristics, from XReader "File | Properties" menu:
   a. Producer = 303l AIX (64bit)
   b. Creator = Ricoh Production Print Solutions Afp2Pdf Version: 303l
   c. Format = PDF-1.3
   d. Optimized = No
   e. Security = No
   f. Fonts = Custom-Metrics-24; and others. --> NOTE: a previous bank report with "Custom-Metrics-23" instead of "Custom-Metrics-24" displays well.

Other bank reports with the same combination of Producer, Creator, Format, Security, and Optimized values display well. Others with Optimized = Yes also display well. However, the fonts differ.

2. One PDF file with the problem had the following characteristics, from XReader "File | Properties" menu:
   a. Producer = Ricoh Americas Corporation, AFP2PDF Plus Version: 1.200.21, AIX
   b. Creator = Ricoh Americas Corporation, AFP2PDF Plus Version: 1.200.21
   c. Format = PDF-1.4
   d. Optimized = Yes
   e. Security = No
   f. Fonts = Custom-Metrics-24; and others. --> NOTE: Other bank reports with mainly "C0EX0....afm" fonts instead of a combination of different fonts ("C0A....afm", "C0D....afm", and other) display well.

Other bank reports with the same combination of Producer, Creator, Format, Security, and Optimized values display well. However, the fonts differ.

Steps to reproduce
Open a PDF file with the characteristics described above from Nemo file manager, using default XReader.

Expected behaviour
Bold characters should be readable.

Other information
a. Bold characters in the same PDF files are very readable, as expected, while remaining bold using Foxit Reader version 9.72 on a Windows 7 computer.
b. Bold characters in other reports from the same bank display correctly, format "PDF-1.4", Producer = "iText® 5.4.3 ©2000-2013 1T3XT BVBA (AGPL-version)" OR "iText® 5.4.1 ©2000-2012 1T3XT BVBA (AGPL-version)".