I'm using CS5 on Mac OSX 10.7.4 and the graphic looks pretty good at 100%, and prints just fine. The design shop is trying to put it on a coffee cup though, and when they scale it down, it looks horrible. Pixelated everywhere.
-antialiasing is on
-resolution is 300 DPI
-align to pixel grid is not checked.
Here is a screen shot at 100%
Here is a screen shot after I scale the object 70%...
When I export from CS6 to PDF, a the stroke is appearing pixelated - this is when I choose "smallest size" or Default - Why is this?
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Here's the illustrator screen:
And here's the InDesign screen