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I'm a new user. I've been tracing bitmap images to use in my embroidery software. Something happened in a recent file and I don't know what. 

In the attached image, you can see the upper half has single lines but the bottom half as outlined the strokes. I used the pen tool for the entire design. It all looks the same to me in Designer on iPad but when I bring into my embroidery software, I see this (it only shows wireframes). I need to have a single line version to work properly in my embroidery app.

I have pressure sensitivity turned off and an even width stroke selected. I've set my layers to "vector."

I tried copying the design to a new file, deleting the bad parts and retracing but I get the same result. I just can't see it until I export as eps and import into Punto. If I start fresh in a new document, the outlines are correct.

What am I doing that's causing this? Is there a way to see when it starts happening in Designer before I get too far?

Is there a way to change these back to "normal" single strokes or do I need to redraw everything?

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Thanks! Sending now.

I've mostly redrawn them all but I'm so paranoid that I do an export after each one to make sure it's OK since I don't know what I did that caused it.

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@DWright did you figure out what I'm doing? Because it's happening again. I can't see it until I get it back on my Mac and then I've done a TON of work without realizing I have a problem.

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Thanks. @DWright

These are all still outlined. I can't see it on iPad. The lines don't look any different. I can't see it until I view it in either Illustrator (turn off Preview) or my embroidery software. 

Last night I redrew 3 pieces. One was fine and 2 were outlined again. To me, I was using the same tools (Pen) in the same way so I really don't know how it happens. And they don't look any different on the iPad so there's no way to tell until after I've done all that work. Even if I set the pen width to .2mm, I have outlined strokes.

It's making me crazy!

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Can you please send me a copy of your .eps file and also confirm the version of the embroidery software that you are using so I can check if it supports PDF or SVG files.

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The issue is being caused by the pressure on the strokes, when I manually selected all the lines and reset the pressure in the Stroke studio the double lines in the exported eps are now single line. I have attached the exported eps file for you to try.

 

Snowmen.eps

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