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Topic: Re: Faint lines (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) What's Wrong with my PDF?, Msg: 139692
From: LeonardR
Date: 9/20/2005 03:54 AM

At 11:37 PM 9/19/2005, p-pdf-whats-wrong-with-my-pdf Listmanager wrote:
>We have a number of engineering PDF documents here (originally dxf or dwg)
>that were created in an inferior way resulting in very
>faint lines, read by Acrobat, whether viewed on-screen, or printed out on
>paper.

Most likely these are "thin hairlines" (though w/o seeing an
actual PDF, I am just guessing)...


>Yes, I know the correct answer would be to go back to the author and have
>them convert the docs correctly, but nevertheless:
>Is there any way to re-process or reprint these documents in Acrobat to make
>the lines appear darker ?

If my guess is correct, then you can use Acrobat 7's
hairline fixer, or a variety of 3rd party tools including PDF
Enhancer, PitStop, etc.


Leonard

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Leonard Rosenthol
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PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice)
215-938-0880 (fax)



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