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Hatch Exporting Weird

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Feb 23, 2025 Feb 23, 2025

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Hi! I am a meek student new to the world of adobe -- I have been making a drawing for an upcoming deadline and it is turning out 'funky.' No matter if I export it as a png or jpeg or PDF it looks really grainy and the hatches overlap all over eachother. I have tried to increase the resolution to 300 600 and 900 ppi but it is not getting any better. I am confused because it looks fine on my screen in illustrator... so much so that I was able to screenshot it and the screenshot portion looks way better than the same part in the jpeg (attaching) when in InDesign. I need to plot the drawing and Indesign crashes when I try to insert the file as .ai (yes eek I recognize that means there are probably big problems with the file!)

 

If anyone has any advice for quick ways to output the illustrator file - as I see it excellent and flawless on my screen in the application - I would love the advice. If someone has posted this before I am very sorry for the double-post, I promise I tried to search for someone who had this issue before!

 

Screenshot 2025-02-24 at 00.15.37.pngexpand image

 

With the quick turn around I am going to try deleting all those trees (LOL) and see if it lowers the file size enough that InDesign is less cranky about placing the file. I am scared though that even if I am able to place the file as an .ai it will still look this ugly when the InDesign file is PDF-ed. **I AM ON A MAC but can switch to a windows**

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Feb 23, 2025 Feb 23, 2025

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Do you have a perfect drawing in Illustrator but are getting dotted lines after exporting? Could you please take a screenshot of the export dialogue? Perhaps you could upload or send that AI file privately so someone can check it on their end.

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I assume that the lines in your drawing are way too thin even for the increased resolution. 

Also: did you already set the rendering quality in InDesign to a higher setting? Or try the Overprint preview?

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