Rounded Rectangle Line Weight problem

I can't make a rounded rectangle with .5pt. It keeps resetting to 1pt. I am also applying a dash (1,1) to the line

rwl3,
You may have Align to Pixel Grid ticked in the Transform palette. You can see it when the object is selected.
If so, you probably have Align New Objects to Pixel Grid ticked in the Options.
To cure this, you may select everything and untick both.

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So, I've drawn some stuff in Illustrator which I've then placed in InDesign.
It all looks right on screen, but when I export the document to pdf (Adobe PDF Presets: High Quality Print) the Illustrator stuff appears to lose the line weight settings. This is easily noticeable on some really thin lines that print much thicker than they were supposed to.
I gotta be missing something when exporting to pdf... 'cause if I export to Jpeg everything comes out right. No more line weight problems! The question is: what the hell am I doing wrong???
Please, somebody help me out.
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1. How are you printing?
I'm using one of the Adobe PDF Export Presets: High Quality Print.
2. What are you using to determine the line weight?
What do you mean? I talking about the stroke size.
3. Have you tried opening the PDF in Illustrator to see what the reported line weight is?
I've tried it now and it looks just fine! Just like it was supposed to! All the line weights are correct.
4. This might just be a limitation of your printer or printer driver.
I don't think so. I have never had this problem up until now!
I'm starting to think it has something to do with some Acrobat preferences settings...

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rwl3,
You may have Align to Pixel Grid ticked in the Transform palette. You can see it when the object is selected.
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To cure this, you may select everything and untick both.

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Try changing the Rendering options on Preferences > Page Display. For example, make sure Smooth line art and Enhance thin lines are checked.
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Hi,
When I save from InDesign as a PDF any line drawn with the pen tool/circle tool etc stay the same line weight no matter how much I'm zoomed in on the document. For example, I could zoom right out to 25% and the line thickness will still look at the same as at 150%. Is there a setting to change this?
Hope someone can help by the end of today.
Many thanks!
Will

Will sent me a PM because he's having trouble replying in the forum:
Hi, thanks.... but that is a setting in Acrobat.
The designer that I work with says that her InDesign doesn't have this line weight problem (or she has never seen this problem before), so is there a setting that I can change in inDesign?
(I tried to reply on the forum but I keep getting an error... 'You can't post a blank message')
This is not a problem in InDesign, it's a problem in the display in Acrobat (and you are the second person today to post about it). Acrobat is the place you need to be to fix it when viewing the PDF.
As far as your posting problem, are you using the web page editor, or email? Some email clients have issues. If the web page, you need a little patience sometimes for the editor screen to fully load, and then you may need to click inside the editing area to get an active cursor. Hitting Enter with a blank message area would generate that error.

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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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I have added rounded rectangle shapes to my FrameMaker document. They have a fill and a border using the fill and pen pattern options. We have overlaid a text box on top. We then PDF the document. When we print the PDF on any of our company printers, they look fine, color or B&W. We've sent them to a printer for color printing and are having an issue. The border line on the right-hand side "sometimes" has a bit of a shadow and "sometimes" the line becomes thicker in the center on the longer shapes. Might be hard to visualize, but at any rate, the line does not maintain a consistent thickness on this particular printer. I don't have the specifications on the printer at this point. Has anyone seen this type of distortion, and if so, is there a fix to the problem? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
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When I use the Rounded Rectangle shape on the Tools Palette, it is getting distorted in the PDF. The other shapes look good. I'm attaching a sample.
I'm using FrameMaker 8.2p277. To create the PDF, I do File>Print and select Adobe PDF as a printer. On the PDF Options, I have selected the same joboptions that I've been using.
I double-checked in Distiller and I do not have "Convert gradients to smooth curves" or "convert smooth lines to curves" selected. Those settings have caused trouble in the past.
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OK. I stumbled upon the answer. When creating a PDF by choosing the Adobe PDF printer in FrameMaker, I had to:
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I have Adobe Pro 8 and make documents for other people to view in reader, i have an issue with line weights being too thick. No problem just check the line weight under the view menu in Pro, but i can't save that choice in the document and that choice is unavialble in reader. can i set the line weight default to on? or is there some way of saving my selection and allowing other people to view it the way i do?

Small is normally the problem that is an issue with the line resolution for print. For big lines, you probably will have to go back and adjust the original document. I do not think there is anything you can do in Acrobat - it is not a graphics editor.

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