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Lines missing when opening PDFs in Acrobat

Community Beginner ,
Oct 26, 2022 Oct 26, 2022

I created a document in photoshop with lines throughout. I saved it as a pdf, which I've done many times before. When I open the pdf with any program besides acrobat, the lines are there. When I open in acrobat, they are missing. Can anyone tell me how to fix this?

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Community Expert ,
Oct 26, 2022 Oct 26, 2022

How did you make the lines in photoshop? Can you post a photo of the same part of the image in both photoshop and Acrobat?

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 26, 2022 Oct 26, 2022

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Here you go. None of the lines show up in acrobat, but if I open the newly saved pdf in photshop, they do show. I also printed out the photoshop one & saved it as a pdf and the lines show up when I do it that way, but they are slightly blurred probably from my printer. I just need crisp lines. 

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 26, 2022 Oct 26, 2022

Sorry realized I wasn't specific. The left photo is from photoshop, the right from acrobat. And to answer your other question, I made the lines using the line tool. 

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Community Expert ,
Oct 26, 2022 Oct 26, 2022

How strange. I made lines in PS using the line tool. And they were visible on the PDF in Acrobat. Would you mind sharing your PSD document so I can take a peek under the hood to try and troubleshoot it?

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 26, 2022 Oct 26, 2022

Yes, thank you for being willing to help. Here you go

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Community Expert ,
Oct 26, 2022 Oct 26, 2022

At first I thought it was because your layers were set to Pass Through blend mode. But I changes them to normal, and it still acted the same way. So I tried making my own line, and it showed up. So I tried once again to edit your lines and sometimes theyshowed up (like if I made them really big and a different color), and sometimes they didn't. It's a real head scratcher...

 

I'm not familiar enough with Photoshop blend modes to help much more. I imagine that someone in the PS forum could figure this out in a heartbeat.

 

But honestly, InDesign would be a better program choice for creating this type of thing.

 

Sorry I couldn't be of more help. I'm very curious to see what the problem is.

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 26, 2022 Oct 26, 2022
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Well I'm not sure if I'm happy or sad that you couldn't figure it out. On the one hand, it means that I didn't mess something up, but still doesn't tell me the problem. I was already working on another file in photoshop which is why I used it and it only took a couple minutes to create in there. I did end up creating it again in another program and it saved as a pdf just fine. But I use lines in photoshop all the time and have never had this issue before. Thank you so much for trying to help me figure it out!

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