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

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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

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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

aa44147539Author

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aa44147539 wrote
… 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. …

Absolutely.

A workaround would be to have all lines as editable objects in InDesign and scale without changing the line weight. That's an option in the Transformation Panel.

Regards,
Uwe

Do you mean it's possible to do what I meant? That there is already an option? :S