Acrobat: thick text?
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- monNom
My acrobat is getting all funky on lowercase L's when they're turned to outlines... they display really thick, but all other text is normal.
any body know why this is?
when I zoom in the text is the proper weight...
is there a mode I can switch to to get rid of this?
Acrobat Pro 6.0
- monNom0
please!
- horton0
this is normal for detailed vector art in acrobat..
don't convert your fonts to outlines if you want it to view clean on screen.
- quisque0
i think there is also a preference, about how line art appears under:
preference->smoothing
- monNom0
Thank you Horton.
- monNom0
Anybody know how to get rid of this? (if it's possible)
I'm tired of explaining that the logo will print fine, it just looks messed because of the software.
P.S. preferences > smoothing doesn't seem to help.
- liquid0
smooth lineart under
edit>preferences >display>smoothing>smooth line art
- mayo0
how did you make this pdf and what quality is it? if you distilled it with press quality, does it look the same?
- liquid0
it looks like that when you outline stuff.
- mayo0
mine doesn't. at least the one i'm looking at now.
- monNom0
I've tried save as Adobe PDF out of illustrator, and Printing to distiller... same result each time.
Haven't tried PDF/X or whatever though.
It seems to only occur on lowercase L's and Uppercase I's from what I can tell. only on text that's been converted to outlines.
Google came up empty... which seems weird since other people know what I'm talking about.
- liquid0
dude did you try what I said?
can you send the pdf to someone and see if its just your settings....
- horton0
monNom.. if its just for presentation you could also just rasterize the logo (150+ dpi, in AI) before saving as a PDF.
and if the file gets too big use the compress option in the AI PDF dialogue to jpeg the image.
- mayo0
zoom in or show them the document in InDesign in High-Res viewing?
- monNom0
I mentioned before that it didn't help..
I've got it smoothing right now... if I turn it off, it's not anti-aliased... not really an improvement...
- mayo0
punch a canary and eat its crackers.
- monNom0
sorry, that was to liquid.
is there really no way around this?
- liquid0
ok that was smooth text...you have to look for smooth LINE ART...
and can you send someone the file to see if its JUST YOUR SETTINGS??
- mayo0
I'm guessing it's the limitations of the program and/or your machine. tell them to print it out.
- horton0
just looked at your example.. pretty common with vertical lines ("L"s etc)...
are you sure you can't just leave the text live/ not outlined and allow PDF to embed the font. with the example you got there, seems to be the way to go.