[softwarelist] Re: Selecting thin lines in OPW documents

Chris Johnson wrote: 
In article <44E391B2.4050500@xxxxxxxx>,
   Clive Bonsall <C.Bonsall@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
JMAH van Vredenburch wrote: 
In message <44E31D08.5030908@xxxxxxxx>
      Clive Bonsall <C.Bonsall@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Occasionally, I come across a problem with "thin" lines (default
setting) in OPW. Having created a line, once deselected I am
unable to select it again in order to modify it.


The most obvious thing to do is to set the default line thickness to
say 0.25 pt. Then it becomes easier to select.

There has been a lot of discussion over the years in various
maillists and newsgroups about the problems that sometimes ensue when
printing 'thin' lines on high resolution devices.

Do you have more details on this? When I started my current DTP project using OPW, I was inclined to go for a line width (in tables especially) of 0.25pt. However, when the documents were converted to PDF using Acrobat Distiller, the lines appeared (to my eye) "too thick". So I now use the thin line setting. Perhaps choosing an intermediate line thickness (i.e. between "thin" and 0.25pt) might be the answer.
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CB

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