6 Replies Latest reply: Jul 28, 2014 9:37 AM by CBTman RSS

    PDF file has three parallel lines for each line object.

    CBTman Community Member

      Working with Illustrator CS5 on a Windows 7 64-bit PC.

       

      When opening files created with a CAD application, I noticed that most each line, whether straight or curve, appeared to be an extended ellipse. In most cases, they contained a line in the middle.

       

      A closer observation determined that the lines where all separate objects, as shown in the figure below.Triple_Line_Example.GIF

      As you can imagine, the extra objects increase the size of the PDF file enormously.

       

      Since I am using these files in MS Word, I need to convert them to either EMF or WMF format. However, Illustrator exports even larger files. I managed to reduce the size of the PDF, but the exported files are even larger than the original PDF file. Saving the original PDF file in AI format did not help either.

       

      The only way I see to reduce the file size, whether PDF or AI, is to eliminate the extra lines. Other than deleting each line at a time or redrawing the entire file, which I am already doing, is there any way to eliminate those pesky extra lines?

       

      Thanks!