Changing line weight in preferences

Hi! How do I change the line weight so that every time I draw a line it's .5 pt instead of 1 pt? Thanks!
Julie

With nothing selected, change the line weight in the Stroke panel or Control panel. This will become your default.
Dave

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PRINT PRODUCTION - CONVERT COLORS - CHANGING LINE WEIGHTS FROM 5 PT TO 1 PT - BIG PROBLEM

I've had three jobs in the past months from customers. Most are created in Indesign with a variety of graphics and illustraitions (Illustrator).
When I made a PDF and use the PRINT PRODUCTION ==> CONVERT COLORS ==. CONVERT COLORS TO OUTPUT INTENT and SELECT PRESERVE BLACK some of the lines change.
1) Today a customer usinged 5pt stroked curved lines created in Indesign in the background of a page. Acrobat saw them as 5 pt and when I used the workflow above changed them to 1 pt.
2) Another example: a circle was drawn in Illustrator, stroked with 7 pt stroke. The graphic imported into INDESIGN. I exported to PDF and ran the above workflow and it changed the stroke to 1.
3) Another example: A customer created a honeycomb in Illustrator with a .25 pt stroke, imported graphic into page in INDESIGN. I exported to PDF and ran the above workflow and it changed the stroke to 1.
I use this workflow to change all colors from graphics to CMYK.
Why is changing line weights?

Oops!! Not until now I discover that under 'Solutions' I happened to write 'untick' where it should be 'tick'! I.e, colors SHOULD be converted to RGB in order to circumvent the problems! I.e it runs havoc in v9 when CMYK colors are NOT converted to RGB! Don't know how I came to write the opposite, but probably I started out by describing the situation where the problems are seen rather than describing how to avoid them.
Equally strange is that nobody corrected me, but perhaps the mistake was so obvious? (But whether you see problems or not might depend on what fonts you use. So, under certain special circumstances, CMYK might actually work without these reported problems.)
I am also a bit surprised that others haven't reported the issue that the PDF version set in PDF job Options isn't respected when using 'Save As PDF' and Acrobat 9? (Or maybe someone has, but I have missed it.)

Filling shapes and changing line weights will not show until export.

When I draw a character, i cannot change line weight of fill shapes. When I do so it remains unchanged, however once I export everything is fine and okay.
This image below is how it looks. Even though it is colored.
Once I export I get this
Can someone please help me?

menu/view/outline
or pres command+y

Why can't I change line weight to less than 1pt?

Suddenly, I am no longer able to make a line .25pt or .5pt. I can go thicker but not thinner than 1pt. What gives? I'm working in CC.

Is the Align to Pixel Grid option turned on?

Line weight changes when using Align to Pixel grid

When I select Align to Pixel Grid in the Transform Panel, I see line weight changes occur. I try to change the line weight in the either the Stroke or Appearance panel and it will not change, no layers locked, any ideas how to change the line weight?

Chouettecacahuete wrote:
... I noticed that the line increases from 0.5pt to 1pt mainly (although not always) on straight lines, anything with a bezier curve seems to remain as 0.5pt.
Just try this, with snap to pixel grid on, create 10 pixel long straight horizontal 1pt line with the pen or line tool. You won't be able to change the stroke weight to other than whole numbers. But if you rotate the line with only 0.01 degrees by typing this for rotation in the Transform panel, then you can change the stroke weight to 1.25 for example. When creating artworks for for screen display always verify the result with View > Pixel Preview turned on.
tonyharmer wrote:
...I only referred to Photoshop to illustrate the behaviour - vector tools aside, everything you do in Photoshop has to be whole pixels
As I said, Photoshop doesn't have snap to pixel grid feature like Illustrator. You can easily create fuzzy lines in Photoshop if you are not drawing them precisely in the middle of the pixels. To check what I'm talking about try this In Photoshop, create a new document with a very small pixel dimensions like 20 x 20 pixels and zoom to the maximum 3200% to see clearly the result. Fill the image with light gray color so you can see the pixels when View > Show Pixel grid is on. Then with black color try drawing a straight line with any tool that creates pixels like a hard brush or the line tool used in pixel mode, and try using constraints like holding Shift while dragging. You will see that unless you draw the lines exactly in the middle of the pixels it will be fuzzy and not clean. The only way to ensure not fuzzy lines in Photoshop is to turn off the anti-aliasing. You do this by unchecking the anti-alias for tools that have this option and instead of burshes use the pencil tool (which is brush without anti-aliasing). And Illustrator works the same too if you turn off Anti-aliased Artwork in its general section of the preferences and view the result with View > Pixel Preview, you don't need to have the Align to Pixel Grid on, the aliased result will be the same like in Photoshop.

Line Weight

I open a PDF of a drawing. I turn off line weights to be able to view it better. I want to save it in that format to send to someone. How do I do this? Also, can I change the preferences of the program to automatically turn off line weight?

The "fix" is in the transform panel. Click on the scale
portion of the panel with anything on the paste board selected. You
will then be able to turn on the function to scale strokes. Just
click on the box to select that option and turn it off when you
dont want strokes to scale.

PDF "line weight" issues

When exporting my document (full of graphs and charts) from Microsoft Word 2010 into Acrobat Pro as a PDF, I am having "line weight" issues upon zooming in and out of the document. Depending on whether I zoom in or out and to what extent, lines disappear, become thicker or thinner or criss-cross eachother; There seems to be no "line weight" problems when printing though. Does anyone have an answer?

Try changing the Rendering options on Preferences > Page Display. For example, make sure Smooth line art and Enhance thin lines are checked.
There will be variation in previewing line weight because of the lower resolution of a screen. On the printer, which has higher resolution, you're seeing a more accurate preview of the objects.

Line Weights in Acrobat X Pro

Hi People,
When I opened a pdf attachment in email (Outlook) the "Line Weight" is very very small. When I save the attachment and then open it in the free reader the line weights are all OK.
I have tried toggling the "Line Weight" option in "View, Show/Hide, Rulers & Grids, Line Weights", but I see no change in the display.
What am I missing?
http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk297/Oldbloke49/Acrobat%20X%20Problem/Acrobat.jpg
Regards
Doug Price

Hi Anoop9178,
YES, YES! That fixed it. I am very grateful
Regards
Doug

Export or Print different line weights (like in AutoCAD)

Is there a way to Export / Print / Save As artwork with reduced line weights like you can in AutoCAD? i.e. Export a PDF and all line thickness is reduced by 50%
I have a map project that I'm working on and I want to export different sections of the map at different scales (different zoom levels) which when you export a PDF, displays line thickess differently for each level of zoom. I'd like to have it setup similar to AutoCAD where I can create a window and now matter what level of zoom, the lines are exported at the same thickness (I'd use Artboards as export windows)
Sorry if this is confusing! Is there a Plug-In or another way to do this without physically changing the line weights?

Do you want a PDF that displays different line weights depending on zoom level? Not possible. Or do you want to export a PDF with line weights different from the ones in your Illustrator file? Possible, even recordable as an action.
Once the artwork is selected, go to Object > Transform > Scale. Scale to 50% and turn on Scale Strokes & Effects, then click OK. Repeat, this time with scaling set to 200% and turn off Scale Strokes & Effects. Save or Save a Copy, then undo twice.
Here it is an an action: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5005292/Set_1.aia

Problems with line weight below 1pt

In Illustrator CS6, when I draw a horizontal line, either with the pen tool or the line tool, the line weight cannot be set below 1pt. If I draw the line at an angle, I can set the line weight to be smaller than 1pt. If I change the position of this line from diagonal to horizontal, then the line weight snaps back to 1pt. Does anyone have any idea why this happening or how to fix it? Thank you!

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Line weight/thickness update

Hey all,
The line tool is not functionning too intuitively for me. It creates a line in a new layer - so far, so good - named "Shape n" (where n is its number). Why not "Line n" ? And then the line weight or thickness won't update when I go to the option bar, having the "path selection" tool on. I can change the colors though. Care to explain, if you've been there ?
Thanks in advance for the support.
Charles

Wow, I knew I was mostly new to this, but I didn't think it was this bad. I say this because there's not a word in two I know the meaning of in your answer ^^
I do however have ideas about this :
1) So the line tool essentially creates a fully painted layer, but then masks it with a vector mask, and that mask has a hard time updating itself ?
2) Stroke feature ? I'll look around for this one and see what this yields.
3) Now, open or closed paths, what does that mean ? As in, the path loops on itself and surrounds a finite portion of the canvas' plane ? And at any rate, what's a subPathItem ?
Thanks again for your concern.

Line weight print options

We are using "line weights view" to view drawings at a high zoom level. We would like to print the current view including the "line weights view".
Is there a possibility to print the "line weights view"?

Hi marybelleanne
Sorry, but what you see is what you get. Why would you want
to change it? Are you finding it difficult to see? If so, perhaps
you should consider submitting a feature request that would ask for
us to have the ability to define the color and width? You may do
this by
clicking
here.
Cheers... Rick

Line weight printing options

We are using "line weights view" to view drawings at a high zoom level. We would like to print the current view including the "line weights view".
Is there a possibility to print the "line weights view"?

Hi marybelleanne
Sorry, but what you see is what you get. Why would you want
to change it? Are you finding it difficult to see? If so, perhaps
you should consider submitting a feature request that would ask for
us to have the ability to define the color and width? You may do
this by
clicking
here.
Cheers... Rick

Line weight of mouse

Can the line weight (thickness) used to display the mouse
path be changed?

Hi marybelleanne
Sorry, but what you see is what you get. Why would you want
to change it? Are you finding it difficult to see? If so, perhaps
you should consider submitting a feature request that would ask for
us to have the ability to define the color and width? You may do
this by
clicking
here.
Cheers... Rick

.pdf line weights

hello all--
this has been bugging me for a while: vector line weights not scaling properly in .pdf's (when viewed on screen in reader, preview, etc). My workflow is usually from illustrator to indesign for layout, then export to .pdf--and the final linework always appears too heavy on screen (until zooming way into the document). To illustrate, the attached image shows linework originated in illustrator, placed in indesign on the left and the same indesign file exported to .pdf on the right-- scaled aproximately the same on screen. Any ideas much appreciated. LML

Most likely, this has to do with how Acrobat displays thin lines. It may be instructive to turn off line art smoothing in Acrobat's preferences. If your (e.g.) 1 pt lines are making it into the PDF as 1 pt lines, then there's nothing wrong with Indesign. You can verify this by opening the PDF in Illustrator and checking stroke.
Your monitor is probably 96 pixels per inch. There are 72 pts in an inch, so a half point rule viewed at whatever zoom renders 100% must be made up of 1/144th of 96 pixels or about 2/3 of one pixel. Since your monitor can only display whole pixels it rounds up. Most people want smoothing on, so they don't see blocky curves. Smoothing usually means that the edge pixels get blurred, but the edge of a 1 pixel line *is* that one pixel, so more pixels must be added. So far, we're only talking about B&W. But your monitor is color, and both Acrobat and Indesign make use of color to help out with smoothing (obviously in different ways).
In the end, if it prints correctly, then you're okay. If you're designing for display only, use thicker rules.
Ken

Changing line weight in preferences

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