Artwork strokes get modified when resizing?

[sofiai34565350]

Hello!

I'm fairly new to illustrator and have a question regarding image sizing:

I've finished a project I now have to place on a template, in order to place the artwork appropriately on the template I need to resize it (make it smaller). However, when I do this, some brush strokes on the artwork disappear or change thickness...

Do I need to save my project a certain way to avoid this issue?

Appreciate any help, thanks in advance!

[Kris Hunt · Accepted solution]

Check "Scale Strokes & Effects" in the Transform palette.

[pedrod84541251]

Thank you Kris!

That improved almost all of the strokes appearance, some are still looking weird... Any idea why some of them did not re-size appropriately?

[Jacob Bugge]

Pedro,

There may be an (additional) issue with Align to Pixel Grid / Pixel perfect art .

From CC 2017 on, you can see the options and behaviour here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/pixel-perfect.html

For earlier versions, you may select everything and then untick Align to Pixel Grid in the Transform palette, and also untick Align New Objects to Pixel Grid in the flyout options. It is crucial that the box is completely unticked, not just a - which also counts as ticked.

It may be noted that even if Align to Pixel Grid is unticked with all objects selected, as long as Align New Objects to Pixel Grid is ticked the creation of new objects will result in those new objects being aligned, even when they are created from existing objects as may happen with Pathfinder operations.

You may avoid document types with that as default (RGB for web and the like) or change the default for such documents.