Illustrator :: Path Length Not Same When Printed?
Feb 14, 2014
I have a fuculty member that is prepping a document in illustrator. The image is a ruler. On the screen the paths show up as 48 inches long with 48 1 inch lines 1 inch apart. each line / path length in the w-vlaue in the inspection bar showing the correct lengths. the main backbone of the ruler is a black box that is 48" long.
When we print this at 720dpi on an Epson 9900 the Ruler prints at just under 49" we did another test with just 4pt think lines.
5 inch prints at 5.1" 10 inches just over 10" 24 inches print at 24 1/2 "
on and on. so why the values in the w-value are different when printing?
I was able to check this agains my HP laserjet in my office, and again, line lenghts versus the w-value are not the same.
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Oct 2, 2012
I'm working in laser cut and very often I need to know how long is the path I'm going to cut with my laser machine. It is very useful to know the length (and the area) of each path while you're designingin Illustrator. I know you can already measure lines or whole objetcs, what I mean is to know the exact path lenght of the lines included in a logo, for exemple, or in a complex drawing.
How I could get this informations in Illustrator CS6?
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I own a company that designs and sells sewing patterns for men's clothing to be made by home sewers. I have my patterns professionally drafted and sent to me as a poster-sized PDF. I then open it in Illustrator, move things around, change some fonts, etc... and make a 34" wide copy to be printed at a copy shop. That's all fine and dandy, and it prints out perfectly.
I then use Acrobat XI Pro to open the 34" version and print to Adobe PDF with the poster setting of 7.5" x 10" for people to print at home. Then I open each page of the multi-page PDF in Illustrator to add a border, alignment marks, page numbers, etc... and save as the same PDF.
Now here is where the weirdness begins. For some reason, there are random chunks of lines (identical to the pattern lines throughout the rest of the document) that aren't supposed to be there. They don't show up on my screen when I open the file in Illustrator or Adobe, but they get printed every time. I've even started the whole process from scratch, tested the 34" wide version at the print shop (prints perfectly), and split it into pages again, and the phantom lines are still there!
I've attached a photo I took of one of the pages in question. The file on my screen is the exact one I printed, and as you can see, they are definitely not the same
I have been saving the PDF files as Press Quality from Illustrator.
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