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Illustrator CS5 - Compound paths produce Hairlines?

May 26, 2010 5:14 AM

Hi all,

I've just had CS5 installed, and all is well bar one problem.

I have a Preflight setup for Acrobat, which includes analysing for line weights over 0.2pt (as directed by my printers).

In Acrobat 9 this is flagging up any EPS file which contains a compound path.

This was not an issue on CS2 Illustrator (or Acrobat 6).

I've checked the EPS files and they are showing up no stroke width, so I'm not sure where this is coming from.

Any help/advice on how to rectify this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

1873 Views 1 Reply Latest reply: Kaushik A, May 27, 2010 2:44 AM

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May 27, 2010 2:44 AM in reply to Joe_Scaramanga

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Hi Joe,
I do see the problem.
In fact I created files containing compound path (with no stroke) in both Illustrator CS2 & CS5, saved as EPS and tested those in Acrobat 7 (I don't have Arobat 6) & Acrobat 9. Acrobat 7 doesn't flag the compund path as having <0.2 pt line width in either CS2 or CS5 created file; while Acrobat 9 flags the compund path as having <0.2 pt line width in both CS2 and CS5 created files. So the issue seems to be at Acrobat end rather than on Illustrator side. I suggest you write about the problem in Acrobat forum!

As a workaround, you may open your EPS files (I guess these are created in AI CS2) in Illustrator CS5 and save as PDF instead of distilling the EPS files to produce PDFs. These PDFs will NOT be flagged as having strokes <0.2 pt by Preflight checks.

See if this works for you!

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