"Save as PDF" stroke weight

When I save an Illustrator file as a PDF, the stroke weights often look substantially heavier than the original when the document is viewed in Acrobat or Reader. It almost looks like all strokes less than 1pt. are displaying at 1pt no matter how small they actually are. If I open the PDF in Illus. stroke weights are correct. Is there a way to fix this, possibly something having to do with transparency and/or flattening?
I often have files in which the same artwork is used both at full scale and substantially reduced, and the heavier stroke weights distort the appearance. Turning the strokes to outlines fixes the PDF display problem but screws up the source file.
Thanks, Susan

Found another related discussion thread (the phrasing was different enough it didn't show up when I searched the forum initially) which has this solution for the viewer:
"over on the indesign forum, someone suggested turning off the "enhance thin lines" option (in reader), and that does the trick. Unfortunately, other viewers won't know to do this without some instruction--- I wonder if there is some line weight threshold where the "enhance" effect kicks in?"
So I did a little test, looks like the threshold is 1pt. Made a test file with line weights of 0.1pt, .25pt, .5pt, 1pt, 2pt. At 100% zoom 1pt and everything smaller looked the same. At 400% zoom line weights looked proportional down to .25pt.
I wish there was a way to turn off the enhance thin lines option in the file itself.

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