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pattyb75562072
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November 12, 2020
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how do I adjust thickness of placed svg line art from Adobe Capture?

  • November 12, 2020
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I have been using Adobe Capture for almost 2 years to gather hand drawn line art, then place in Illustrator via my CC Library. I am able to adjust stroke widths & paths to open & closed paths but have not found a way to alter the thickness of lines in general - my images either show double lines (when using a minimal stroke & no fill) OR show as thicker lines than my original line art (when using either minimal stroke or none & fill with black). I previously used Image Trace and years ago always scanned my images. Adobe Capture works great except for this factor I seem unable to figure out!  Thanks for suggestions. Also I attempted to attach 3 files and all were removed (error message claims my file extension isn't correct?).

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    Correct answer Monika Gause

    If you want to show something, in many cases a screenshot is sufficient. Show us the outline view. If you need to show AI files: upload them to Dropbox and post a link.

    As for widening lines:Try Object > Path> Offset path.

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    gabyf21450865
    gabyf21450865
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    March 20, 2021

    I have the exact same problem. I draw on paper with a thin fineliner, and vectorize all of my drawings with Capture (It's so much faster and easier than live trace, specially when I vectorize lots of tiny doodles at a time), but it seems that the lines the app uses for the outline, are somehow fixed and can't be made smaller in AI.

     

    Perhaps this is a feature they are yet to add to the app? 

     

    It would be really great, since my vectorized artwork would be much better if it had the original line art thickness. 

    Monika Gause
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    Monika GauseCommunity Expert
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    March 20, 2021

    If I understand this correctly, you want to trace as strokes, instead of shapes?

    That would require some artificial intelligence that at the moment doesn't seem to work in autotrace modules at all (no matter which application).

     

    You can somewhat do it using Image trace, but the results are mostly weird.

    gabyf21450865
    gabyf21450865
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    March 23, 2021

    I'm sorry, I don's have much experience with Illustrator, so I'm not sure how to put it correctly. But I do want shapes, just with a thinner line. 

     

    For example, I recently used Capture to vectorize some drawings. As you can see in both cases, the line is kind of thin on paper. When I take it to Illustrator, the lines are much thicker, and I think there's no way to make those thinner, more like the original sketch. Correct?

     

     

     

     

     

      Monika Gause
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      Monika GauseCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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      November 12, 2020

      If you want to show something, in many cases a screenshot is sufficient. Show us the outline view. If you need to show AI files: upload them to Dropbox and post a link.

      As for widening lines:Try Object > Path> Offset path.

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        pattyb75562072Author
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        November 12, 2020

        Monika Gause
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        Monika GauseCommunity Expert
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        November 12, 2020

        Interesting potential & thanks for your suggestion but what I'm trying to do is the opposite -  not thickening the lines but making the final result a finer line (looking like the original hand drawn .3 mm marker used). Sorry image was posted twice (it didn't appear to have gone through). Thanks.


        Then enter a negative value and lines will get thinner.

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