line weight in drawings

[gtrude]

Does anyone know how to adjust the display of the part edges when used in a pdf'd drawing? I have a drawing of a part with text engraving on it. In drafting, everything on the drawing looks fine, but when I export the pdf, the part is displayed in very heavy lines which make the text un-readable). Title block comes out looking good though.

Any ideas?

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[lwh]

Line weight in drawing plots depends on

- the line color, where some are predefined as system colors, e.g. 'geometry' and 'leaders'

- the plotter mapping as given in the config.pro file

- any pen mappings given in a pen table file

I assume You use WF4 with built in pdf creation.Unfortunately, I have no experience with that. Have You checked it against a paper plot?

My alternative would be to plot the drawing to a Postscript file and convert this to a PDF using e.g. Ghostscript. This will produce the same line weights as on a plotter. It may be automated as well and allows additional manipulations like watermarks etc.

When plotting to other file types, e.g. TIFF, line weights also are not always as desired. TIFF for example has problems with fillets.