Lines in pdf conversion look thick!

It's an architectural plan linked as eps in indesign the one I'd like to convert to pdf. In Indesign High quality display mode, in a "fit to windows zoom" I see very smooth and thin lines and everything seems perfect. I convert that page in pdf but in zoom at the same level I see very thick lines! I know they just look like that because if I zoom them everything is as it should be but in an aerial view isn't properly rendered.
Is there an option in the pdf conversion I should check? I can use both print pdf or export...
Here are the 2 results compared:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3646/3297308538_e02b798333_o.jpg
let me know please!
thanks!
mz

If the lines are really too thick - as shown by zoom,
where the linewidth grows proportionally - then the
information is already in the PDF. Perhaps by applying
'Fix Hairlines' in AcrobatPro.
If the original vector lines in the EPS a very thin -
which happens for instance by downscaling a technical
drawing - then PostScript systems are handling this case
like zero linewidth: the thinnest device pixel line is shown.
In Acrobat use
Edit > Preferences > Page Display > SmoothLineArt=Off
The line is shown for all zoom factors by one-pixel
rendering.
For SmoothLineArt=On, the line looks considerably thicker,
but the visual linewidth is still independent of the zoom
factor.
So far actually tested by CS2.
I'm programming plenty graphics directly by PostScript as
EPS', place in ID or PageMaker and export as PDF.
It happened never that a sufficiently thick line was rendered
thicker in the PDF.
The remedy is IMO: use Fix Hairlines with a sufficiently large
minimal linewidth, for instance 0.3 mm.
Best regards --Gernot Hoffmann

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