I'm encountering the years old issue of rectangles displaying as overly fat or skinny on screen in PDFs in Acrobat. These files are created using either Illustrator or InDesign. I know in the past, many people have had this problem when type is outlined (like in the case of a logo) and the L or I renders badly, showing up as chunky and/or elongated.
Well, this time, I'm having the problem with plain old rectangles. As part of a corporate identity, I have a striped area that's made up of a group of long skinny rectangles that are then masked inside a shape.
Everything looks ok in Illustrator, but when I export it for our presentation the rendering of the width of the stripes is way off, with many appearing thinner and some fatter, instead of identical in dimension (which they are). It's critical this looks ok in the PDF, since that's how the client will be seeing this first.
I believe this is the same problem discussed here:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/1149642
http://forums.adobe.com/message/1312164
http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/004301.html
This first cropped up in 2006. Has there been any progress on this issue that we only see in Acrobat? Preview seems to handle it fine.
I really don't want to have to go in and add extra points to every single line to fix this.
Thanks!