I got a subscription to Acrobat because of the ability to print PDFs across multiple pages but it is not printing my very fine lines correctly. I am using very fine lines in my drawing and when printed they are all wrong. To see what was going wrong I made a test image of concentric rectangles whose line thickness is getting gradually thinner. It prints OK in Sumatra PDF and if I rasterise the image to 600dpi but Acrobat just prints a black mess. I have spent days trying wvarious printer and viewer settings and searching the internet but I cannot find a solution.
As you can see, the very thin lines are printing as a thick blackness but only with Acrobat.
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I added a title to each image but they don't seem to have shown up. The first image is a photo of an Acrobat printout. The second is of a Sumatra prinout. The third is a rasterised PNG printout and the fourth is a screen shot of the image in Acrobat.
This image is a photo of all three printouts together.
   Another testfile shows that below a certain thickness the lines actually print thicker than a thicker line. I have set Fix Hairlines threshold in print preproduction to 0 (zero pt) but it seems to ignore that below a certain thickness.
Try turning off the Acrobat page display preference to "enhance thin lines", although I believe this should only affect page display. If this helps, you could use the flattener preview to convert all strokes (lines) to outlines (shapes) which might print correctly regardless of Acrobat preference.
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