Maintaining markup line thicknesses when flattening markups

  • Maintaining markup line thicknesses when flattening markups

    Posted by David Cutler on July 23, 2024 at 3:22 pm

    Is there a way to maintain markup line thicknesses when flattening markups? I have some sketches that I’d like to share with some trade partners, but I’d like to flatten the markups before I distribute the file. Problem is that the line-weights all appear to be reduced to 1 PT when I flatten the markups.

    At this point the best I’ve come up with is to print the PDF to a new PDF. This flattens the markup while maintaining the line weights – but appears to take what was a vector PDF and turn it into a raster PDF, which I’m not thrilled with.

    Any suggestions? Perhaps a setting that I’m missing?

    David Cutler replied 3 months, 3 weeks ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Troy DeGroot

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    July 29, 2024 at 1:29 pm
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    Rank: UC2 Brainery Brown Belt III UC2 Brainery Brown Belt III

    If you have your line weights disabled, when you flatten your markups the line weights are tuned off on the markup because its now pdf content. turn your lightweights back on and they should show correctly.

    • David Cutler

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      July 29, 2024 at 2:17 pm
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      Thank you @troy-degroot ! Exactly the solution I was hunting for!

      • Troy DeGroot

        Organizer
        July 29, 2024 at 5:46 pm
        Points: 23,485
        Rank: UC2 Brainery Brown Belt III UC2 Brainery Brown Belt III

        I never have my line weights turned on, so I learned that from experience!

        • David Cutler

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          July 30, 2024 at 6:58 am
          Points: 26,363
          Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt UC2 Brainery Advanced Advanced Brown Belt Rank

          Thank you, as always, for sharing your experience!

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