Duplicate object (stroke) when saving to PDF

Question

Hello guys,

I have a new strange situation in Illustrator when I'm saving file into PDF.

I recorded a video https://capture.dropbox.com/dVf8f2p7buyxJiGF as you can see the stroke that I selected are coloured by spot colour (CutContour), but after saving it into PDF format the same object it duplicate itself into another object with CMYK color stroke.... you can see that in the Acrobat window.

It's something without any logic to me.... Do you any idea?

Best

Francesco

Brad @ Roaring Mouse · Accepted Answer

Hi Monika,

Do you mean layer could be a stroke property? Where can I found this preference? Just to know, it's a feature that I didn't know

Best

Francesco

If you double-click on the filled grey circle on the layer panel, you can see what's assigned to it (Appearance Panel). You can then pull down Clear Appearance and the filled grey circle should go away, along with the errant .25pt magenta line.

Brad @ Roaring Mouse · Answer

There is something weird about the layer you have your Contour on. It seems to have a default Appearance of a .25 pt 100M (Hence the filled grey circle on the layer panel)

I can't seem to clear it, but I found the easiest thing to do now is to select your Contour objects and move them to a NEW layer, and then delete the old one.

Don't forget to make your Contour objects to Overprint Stroke if the vendor needs it that way.

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