I am generating Service manuals inside Word, exsporting it to the our digital print service, using the Acrobat X Word plugin.
Parts illustrations is made in SolidWorks by our design department - exported to PDF - re-opened with Illustrator, edited if needed and finally copy/ pasted into Word as an enchanged meta file, meaning its true vector graphic.
After exporting to PDf from Word, the vector lines are various width due to some disadvantages inside Word i guess.
Using the pre-press tools inside Acrobat X - for correting fine lines should do the job - but no. The lines are changed but not to the requested target size.
Have some older manuals whrere the lines are 0. pkt in width, and changing the into 0,25 pkt. gives me anything inbetween 0,0015 to 0,035 pkt.
Newer manuals can be corrected, some illustration become the target width other a lot thinner.
IF re-opening one page in the complete PDF file generated inside Word with Illustrator and saving the page again without changing anything, "converts" the illustration in a way, that fine line tools works perfectly thereafter BUT only the particular pages that have been re-opened in Illustrator.
Any ideas and comment are welcome. ?
I would love shifting to InDesign for manual development, by many of my colleguas re-uses parts of my documentation, and I am the only employee having the CS - so its Word we are using :-(
