ebswift Posted October 5, 2018 Share Posted October 5, 2018 I get a curious loss of the line weight when trying to copy groups of lines from specific PDF's. I've attached an example PDF so you can reproduce the same result. If I drag this file onto Publisher, the document preview looks fine. If I then drag around the vector image and copy it, then paste it into my Publisher document, all the line weights are lost and they become very thin. The same thing happens if I drag it into Designer, copy it in there, then paste it back into Publisher. What I see after I drag the PDF into Publisher as a new document (drag onto title bar): What I see after I paste the copied group from above onto a Publisher page: Workaround (more work): drag the PDF into Designer title bar export the file as SVG open the SVG and copy/paste from it into the Publisher document and all the line weights are preserved Design1.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted October 5, 2018 Staff Share Posted October 5, 2018 Hi ebswift, Thanks for letting us know, I've reproduced it here and its not related to your PDF. It is being caused by pasting vector objects between two documents of different DPIs. The physical dimensions on the page are kept the same, but the Stroke size is getting scaled, which is making the lines look thin. In Designer however, both the Stroke and the object were scaled, so everything looked in proportion. In the meantime you can simply select your entire object and tick the 'Scale with object' checkbox in the Stroke Panel. You can then copy and paste that and it should retain the Stroke size correctly. I'll get it passed on to development. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebswift Posted October 6, 2018 Author Share Posted October 6, 2018 Good stuff, thanks Sean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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