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Puma7 aka is a boy, has been a member since August 20, 2007, has scored 1,055 submissions, giving an average score of 2.38, helping 19 designs get printed.

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Feb 09 '09 by Puma7
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Lines get thicker in illustrator when scaling?

I'm trying to fit my design onto a template and when I scale it down to the size to fit it onto the shirt, all of the lines seemingly get thicker compared to the size of the design. How do I put this into the correct format for submission without messing it up? I'm using an adobe illustrator cs4 trial.

EricDiaz on Feb 09 '09 at 6:36pm

that's probably the stroke, go stroke free! or just tone down the stroke after scaling.

NomadSlim on Feb 09 '09 at 6:36pm

Double click the scale tool in the palette. It will have a check mark that says "scale strokes" you can uncheck it. It will save this setting and if you want to change you can just do the same thing and recheck it.