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Acrobat XI Pro SVG file line thickness inconsistency for Kindle publication.

  • December 4, 2024
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I have Acrobat XI Pro and I am writing my books using MS Word and using Acrobat to convert it with the embedded SVG images to PDF files for publication in Kindle.

It works, but I am getting inconsistent thickness in the lines of the SVG images. I know it is not the original images because they were all made with Illustrator and all have the same line thickness, but once converted to a PDF file, some shows up as thicker lines while a few do not. Kindle prints the thick lines as thick lines and thin lines as thin lines so it is something Acrobat is doing.

Is there something I can do to avoid this thick line problem

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Well I found a fix but not the reason for what I see.

The key is when I looked at the PDF file, there was one image that had thin lines...

I went to that drawing and started deleating items from it and then checking the resulting PDF file which had that image with the missing items and eventually found that the image had three invisible line in it which cannot be seen but can be selected.  When thos lines disappeared, the thick lines came back.

More importantly, I found that I could group and copy those ivisible items and add them to the drawings which were coming out thick and putting those group of invisible lines in them made them come out thin in a PDF file.

So I know how to get around it but not why Acrobat behaved the way it did.  So good enough.

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IJN bookmakerAuthorCorrect answer
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December 5, 2024

Well I found a fix but not the reason for what I see.

The key is when I looked at the PDF file, there was one image that had thin lines...

I went to that drawing and started deleating items from it and then checking the resulting PDF file which had that image with the missing items and eventually found that the image had three invisible line in it which cannot be seen but can be selected.  When thos lines disappeared, the thick lines came back.

More importantly, I found that I could group and copy those ivisible items and add them to the drawings which were coming out thick and putting those group of invisible lines in them made them come out thin in a PDF file.

So I know how to get around it but not why Acrobat behaved the way it did.  So good enough.

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December 4, 2024

Yes, but frankly I think you are right, but the question is why does it do this for some but not all SVG files.

The interesting thing is I never had this problem when I was using my old Acrobat 7.0 Standard version and this only came up when Adobe forced me to abandon this old version and go to the Acrobat XI Pro version because they do not suppor the old version, even though I was 100% happy with no support....

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