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I had to design a sticker on which the printer needed a contour (stroke around) for cutting. I made it in AD and the printer said: no fiil, only contour, please!
So I looked at it in Illustrator and found that the stroke around the design had been transformed into a fill by AD in the PDF. So I seem not to be able to deliver this design in AD which therefore I consider a bug. See images: AD and Illustrator.

Merry christmas to ye all!

Alex

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Make the cutcontour path align to the middle. Currently it aligned to the outside.

Any path that is not aligned to the middle gets converted to a filled compound object.

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Surely this should still be considered a bug? I'm not sure I follow the logic of only centre aligned strokes exporting correctly to pdf... How does a similar source file export with centre, outer and inner strokes from Illustrator?

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18 minutes ago, Hangman said:

Surely this should still be considered a bug? I'm not sure I follow the logic of only centre aligned strokes exporting correctly to pdf... How does a similar source file export with centre, outer and inner strokes from Illustrator?

A pdf has no concept of stroke alignment. The screen shot below from an AI pdf has 3 rectangles. Top used alignment to the Middle, middle rectangle to the inside, bottom rectangle to the outside.

Only the top rectangle survived as a stroke for a rectangular object. But do note the extra nodes on the bottom rectangle. Illy sucks in certain respects and this is one of those.

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Thank you for pointing this out. Your thoughts are really something to consider.

I think the first of your samples seems quite reasonable to me, though. I cannot see issues with that one. IMHO this would be the behaviour expected. I don't know the PDF-handling of that, therefore it could be a PDF problem. However. I surely am not the first to have designed a contour for cutting in the print process. o.O

Almost missed the answer of MikeW: Mike: thanks for the easy solution! :-)

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