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‎Nov 30, 2018
08:36 AM
But this is a widespread issue, even on my set up and I am using an above-average monitor. You wouldn't think that Adobe expects everyone to go buy a 4K monitor. You'd think that there would be an automatic feature or easily selectable tool that allows you to view the PDF full screen and look the same as it would when printed. Maybe temporarily flatten the drawing or something similar? An additional note is that when I plot or print using the Microsoft print to PDF option, the PDF looks a lot better on the computer screen, still not as good as when printed, but better. The issue here is that I think it "flattens" the PDF and takes away any special aspects that the PDF may have. So I am left wondering why can you view the "Microsoft print to PDF" better than the "DWG to PDF"?
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‎Nov 30, 2018
07:50 AM
The issue that my organization is having is that 11"x17" PDFs do not always show up visually correct on a standard widescreen computer monitor using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. As you can see in my screen clips below the lines do not appear to be the same thickness when zoomed out vs when zoomed in. The first clip is zoomed out to full page and you can notice that the text looks strange and that the dashed lines appear to all be the same thickness. The second clip is zoomed in 300% and you can finally start to tell the difference in the dashed lines and the text looks more normal. These clips are from a plan set that was created using Autodesk Civil 3D 2018 and plotted using the DWG to PDF option. Note that when printed, the line thickness shows up correctly. I believe that this is a very important issue because organizations, including government agencies, are reviewing complex engineering plan sets on their computers rather than printing the plan set out. This is becoming almost the standard because it is convenient, cost effective, and eco-friendly (saving the trees). So what is happening is that the reviewers are sending plan sets back because some of the graphical line work does not show up properly and they think that it is an issue on the designers end when in reality it is because Adobe Acrobat DC does not show these lines correctly. Note that zooming in can make the plan set much more difficult to review. What is needed is for the plan sets to look on the computer screen exactly as it looks when printed out. My question is, has Adobe addressed this issue at all and/or are they working on a permanent fix? And in the meantime are there any tools currently available to manually fix this issue?
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