I've posed this question before, many CDR levels ago, but the anomally still seems to exist even in X6.
When a line is drawn with 'hairline' thickness, CDR produces a line which has a thickness of around .075mm
This is easily verified by zooming in, especially if you draw an adjacent line of say .001mm by comparison. This of course presents an issue when working on fine small scale graphics, where the line has to be thinned to be visually useable.
What thickness should a hariline be then? My feeling for what it's worth is that although a hairline needs to be visible to be useful, it should always present thinner than the thinnest line that can be drawn with a specific line weight. A limitation to this may be that for technical reasons it cannot be represented thinner than the thinnest line available to be specified in Corel Draw (in metric, .001mm I think), but I would be surprised if this technical limitation exists anyway.
Any thoughts?
Well, u can always make default line thickness and use it every time u need to, so, basically there is no problem. As for hairlines, well... I don't think much about it since there is so many choices and possibilities that it becomes irrelevant...
Hi,
I don't think so that there should require any default thickness of line as u said .001mm, Because u can always set line thickness in very few clicks and even it is in the whatever metric e.g. in Outline width: just enter (0.001mm or 1cm or 1in ...etc then corel will automatically convert it into the pt metric) and even outline pen property is there for advance options.
Ofc u don't have to make it default. I was regarding to his need to often usage of that line thickness.
U can set thickness for every separate document at your need so, in fact, there is so much possibilities that i wouldn't spend much time thinking about it.
zigzag said:Any thoughts?
Would be interesting to hear the true definition.
Yes, it surely would. I think that hairline should be the smallest thickness possible. Coz, not all users use printers (ploters, cutters, laser...)