AI drawing line thickness incorrectly displayed on PDF export

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December 29, 2016
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Hi,

when exporting an Indesign file to PDF the line thickness of the Illustrator drawings used is not correctly shown.

Zoomed out (and printed) it seems like the first 3 line drawings have a lighter line thickness:

Zoomed in it's clearly visible that the line thickness of the 3 top drawings is denser.

I have no idea what causes this.

Anyone around who can help me out?

many thanks,

François

line thickness

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W

WACOAuthor

Participant

Thanks for the input. However I'm looking for a universal solution. I'm building commercial datasheets and I cannot expect all users to change their viewing setting. But thanks for your input!

best regards,

Franz

Frans v.d. Geest

Community Expert

That is the problem, your clients can set Adobe Reader as they like, however, the solution is correct so, yes: you have to inform your clients to turn this option off in the Reader...

hammer0909

Community Expert

Hi François,

It would help to know what stroke value you are using in Illustrator for the various paths. What I think you are experiencing is the fact that there aren't enough pixels (or dots when printed) to render the strokes in the weight that they are drawn. When zoomed out, you only have so many pixels to render the lines but when zoomed in, more pixels can be used to represent the lines and the difference between the lines is more noticeable. The same goes for your printer. If it's possible to print to your printer at a higher dpi, you may be able to notice a difference. Try printing to your printer at a higher percent (200% for example) and I'd be that you'll see a difference. I think you're simply running into a limitation of the equipment.