Hi guys.
I've just discovered one very disturbing thing.I don't know if I'm doing something wrong.For example lets make 4 squares.Each with different line thickness: 0.08mm / 0.06mm / 0.04mm and hairline.Now save it as pdf and now open (import) again in Corel. Now thickness will be like that: 0.08 / hairline / hairline / hairlineInformation in pdf is correct because if you open this pdf with Illustrator all lines have correct thickness.This means that Corel changes line thickness during import???It seems that during the import all lines with a thickness less than 0.078mm are converted to hairline.This is some nightmare.Can you please check if you have the same?Or maybe there is some solution for that (some setting)?
What version of CorelDRAW? What operating system?
The CorelDRAW PDF export process was never intended as a round trip process, meaning that a PDF exported is not intended to be imported into Draw. An exported PDF from Draw is intended to be used as a container file for output. Sharing CorelDRAW files is intended to be done via the CDR, CMX format, IMO only via the CDRCfile format.
As you have tested, the exported PDF when imported into Illustrator contains the correct line weights. The questions are now, does CorelDRAW change the line weight upon importation or does it simply default to labeling line weights of .06mm and less as hairline?
I'll test it later today.
David Milisock said:The questions are now, does CorelDRAW change the line weight upon importation or does it simply default to labeling line weights of .06mm and less as hairline?
CorelDRAW is not simply "labeling" the line weights incorrectly. They are hairline width (0.0762 mm).
I don't think that operating system has something to do here but it is Windows 10.I use latest Corel version 24.3.0.571 but I tested it also on 23.5.0.506.So I believe this doesn't depend on version, but somehow I didn't discover it earlier.
The point here is not that this is how I want to share my files. The thing is that 99% of jobs that I receive and must work with are done in Illustrator.I need to import them to Corel and now I see that I can't be sure that lines have proper thickness.
And like Eskimo wrote it's not labeling, thickness is changing
If Illustrator can import pdf content correctly why Corel can't???There is so many such small things in Corel that makes life much harder.
Ok here's is what I have found. Looking at the created PDF files in multiple PR-PRESS PDF editors and CorelDRAW.
CorelDRAW when publishing to PDF press setting produces a PDF that is incorrect when viewed in Acrobat, and two RIPs with PDF plugins, the first three line weights .08, .06, .04 are correct the hairline is incorrect.
This is regardless if it's mm or inches, if you set drawing precision to 6 you can get Draw to display and create the line weights in inches to display correctly in Draw only.
CorelDRAW imports or opens its own PDF incorrectly, only one line weight is correct the first one, .08mm.
CorelDRAW prints to a PS level 3 file correctly and can import that PS file correctly.
With all this said I believe there is a limitation on the minimum line weight in PDF as none of my PDF generation software can reproduce a proper PDF even when CorelDRAW is removed from the equation by using a PS file.
All my documentation lists .25 points/.088MM as a minimum weight.