Line width problem with PDF export

[Egg Bramhill]

Hi Helen,

I'm not 100% sure what your problem is here. Are you creating a solid line in Xara or a dotted line?

Perhaps you could post the xar (or part of the xar) here so we can see if we can reproduce it.

[hgregory]

Hi Egg. Both a 'dotted' line and solid lines. It's the end 1/3 of a page to be used as a membership-enrollment form. Dotted line indicates where to cut it off, lower 3 lines for new member to complete with ...
Name: _________________________
Address: __________ phone _______
City, State: ________e-mail _______

The 1pt lines did look better; however, I can't figure out why that little "underscore" mark shows up on the solid lines in the pdf. ?? Thanks.

[Egg Bramhill]

That's understood Helen, thanks. However if you could post the xar file I'm sure we could solve, or create a workaround for your problem.

[hgregory]

The xar file is too big for me to post (anywhere -- slow dial up). With lines (including the dotted one) changed to 1pt (vs. .5pt), they look OK on the PDF. Except for those funny little 'underscore' marks...which don't show up until the PDF is enlarged to 125 percent. When the PDF is printed on my hp6540 deskjet, the lines appear to be the same thickness each, and no extra little marks appear. I'll question the printer again tomorrow.
Thanks again.

PS...just reading thru the TG posts I found via 'search' was helpful!

[amoore]

I... had the same .5 pt. display problems as you did in Acrobat, Illustrator, and Ghostscript.

It also happens in the Jaws Editor. I've always assumed that it was a display thing since it doesn't just happen in pdfs or Xara files. The files have always printed correctly, regardless of whether they were native or pdf.