Acrobat: thick text?
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- mayo0
punch a canary and eat its crackers.
- 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
zoom in or show them the document in InDesign in High-Res viewing?
- 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.
- liquid0
dude did you try what I said?
can you send the pdf to someone and see if its just your settings....
- 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.
- mayo0
mine doesn't. at least the one i'm looking at now.
- liquid0
it looks like that when you outline stuff.
- 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
smooth lineart under
edit>preferences >display>smoothing>smooth line art
- 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.
- monNom0
Thank you Horton.
- quisque0
i think there is also a preference, about how line art appears under:
preference->smoothing
- 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.
- monNom0
please!
- 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