Scaling a PDF but not the line thickness

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April 17, 2018
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Hello,

last time I asked a question in this forum I got tones of high quality and fast answers, need to thank you about it!

Now a small new doubt showed up.

After exporting plans in a big format/scale (A0) I'm preparing an a3/a4 presentation, and I've been using the same exported pdf's.

I've scaled those pdf's in order for them to fit in an a3/a4 (around 25%), but the problem is that the thickness of the lines is also scaled, which makes the line way to thin in order too see them properly when printed.

is there a way to scale the PDF's but to keep the line thicknesses so I don't have to export again all PDF's from the CAD program in a smaller scale? That would save me quite a lot of time.

Thanks a lot.

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Document Geek

Community Expert

Have you tried the Fix Hairlines command in Acrobat? That's what I use to fix the thickness of the lines when I have scaled-down CAD drawings saved as PDFs.

aa44147539Author

Participant

Thanks all for your replies.

The problem is that I would like all the lines to keep their original thicknesses, and therefore, the proportion of thicknesses between them. I guess the easiest way might be to reexport all the documents then.

Have a nice day

Dov Isaacs

Legend

You could open the pdfs in Illustrator, and adjust the line thickness there?

NO, NO, NO!

On behalf of Adobe Systems Incorporated:

Adobe Illustrator is not, repeat is not, repeat yet again is not a general purpose PDF file editor. The only PDF files that Adobe Illustrator can safely edit are PDF files saved from Adobe Illustrator with the editability option specified. Otherwise, it is possible that you can lose content, have color space changes, have font changes, and have text formatting changes if you open an arbitrary PDF file (such as one exported by InDesign) in Adobe Illustrator.

- Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)