/t5/acrobat-discussions/turn-off-line-smoothing-in-acrobat-dc/td-p/9476517Nov 18, 2017
Nov 18, 2017
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When I write a comment to students on their papers, my handwriting is smoothed by Acrobat, and often distorted beyond recognition, sometimes taking my letters and spiking them above and below the word. I've turned off the "smooth line art" in preferences. I am using a Wacom CTL 490 tablet. I'm sure it's not the tablet because it works perfectly in Onenote and Photoshop. Even if I could tone the smoothing down a little so it my handwriting is still readable, that would be fine.
/t5/acrobat-discussions/turn-off-line-smoothing-in-acrobat-dc/m-p/9476518#M77001Mar 28, 2018
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I have the same issue.
I tried going to Preferences > Page Display > uncheck "Smooth Line Art" and restarted the application. It still smooths my handwriting.
I am running on a mac version 10.13.1 and there are no new updates for Adobe Acrobat Pro. I have a similar Wacom tablet that draws fine with other applications like Photoshop.
I too have been suffering with this problem for years! Handwriting comments/marking up PDF documents in Acrobat is terrible when compared with competing products. Please, Adobe! Help!
I will warn you that it requires creating a registry which can be confusing if you don't know how to do that. I didn't but I figured it out using those instructions so it's definitely not impossible. Also, pencil lines will be more pixelated as the program is no longer smoothing them out. Best of luck, let me know if I can help with anything.
I will warn you that it requires creating a registry which can be confusing if you don't know how to do that. I didn't but I figured it out using those instructions so it's definitely not impossible. Also, pencil lines will be more pixelated as the program is no longer smoothing them out. Best of luck, let me know if I can help with anything.
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