Zoom out issues

[Tiffeny5FB7]

Hi Everyone,

I am wokring on a sketch with fine lines and dots etc. When I zoom out to see the full picture the lines and dots blend and I cant see anything. Can someone help this issue please. 

[Doug A Roberts]

Can you show a screenshot?

Is it possible that it's just the limits of your screen resolution (i.e. at a certain zoom level the details of your artwork are smaller than a screen pixel)?

[Ton Frederiks]

Without seeing your artwork, it may be a limitation caused by the resolution of your display, there are not enough pixels to show everything.

You can have 2 views of the same file, one zoomed in and one showing the total artwork.

Window > New Window

Window > Tile

[Tiffeny5FB7]

The dark grey is suppose to be fine lines and the circular lighter grey are dots

[Doug A Roberts]

I believe this is just the limitations of your monitor. It can't show infinite detail in finite pixels.

[Tiffeny5FB7]

When I save the document as PDF is also displays the artwork incorrect though. How do I change this pixel issue?

[Doug A Roberts]

When viewing the PDF, in Acrobat Preferences > Page Display, is Enhance Thin Lines ticked?

Other than that, the PDF should display the same as the Illustrator file.

I don't think this is an issue, unless you consider the resolution of your monitor an issue.

[Tiffeny5FB7]

Ok thanks so much. I guess its just fustrating zooming out on my artboard and not seeing the detail. Ill look into a new monior.

Thanks

[Doug A Roberts]

This will be a limitiation of all monitors (at different zoom levels), not just yours. What resolution is it?

[Tiffeny5FB7]

It is doing the same on another computer. I believe its the scale of my artwork. No the resoultion. How can I fix the scale?

[Doug A Roberts]

It will do the same on any computer with a comparable monitor resolution. I don't know what you mean by 'fix the scale'.

[Tiffeny5FB7]

for instance.. this is a working cad i have downloaded. i can zoom in and out and the small dotted lines do not change scale...

You see my legging above. If i zoom out to view the whole legging, the small lines turn into a block of just grey. I cnat see the detail. So this tells me its not my screen, its the artwork 

[Doug A Roberts]

You need to compare like for like. Are the lines in this artwork at the same scale as the lines in yours? Are they arranged the same way?

[Tiffeny5FB7]

This is why I am asking. I dont know how to scale lines.

[Doug A Roberts]

Do you want the patterns in your original image to be larger?

Are they pattern fills on closed shapes, or something else?

[Tiffeny5FB7]

I am a very beginner and I draw and then I have a problem with the scale of the lines when I zoom out. I dont know technical stuff. I just want a answer how to be able to zoom in and out of my drawing without it being different

[Monika Gause]

I dont know technical stuff.

By @Tiffeny5FB7

But it's technical stuff that is causing this. So you have to learn it.

Your monitor consists of pixels. Each pixel can display one color at a time. If you zoom out so much that 4 small elements would need to be displayed by one pixel of your monitor, then it cannot work. The pixel will then create the average color and display that: grey.

[Tiffeny5FB7]

Yes correct. And I am trying to learn these things but I am not getting the right answer by googling or you tube. So hense why I came here to get someone to tell me what I am doing wrong or how I can correct this. I am not getting the right answer. 

[biruk5E4E]

can you send me the screenshots please on instagram @biluke_wa

[Monika Gause]

I just explained it to you.

[Doug A Roberts]

I don't know what other answer you are expecting apart from those given.

This is a result of your monitor displaying objects that are individually thinner than single pixels.

[biruk5E4E]

can you send me the screenshoot please

[Tiffeny5FB7]

 ZOOMED IN WHILE I AM WORKING

ZOOM OUT SO I CAN SEE THE WHOLE ARTWORK