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Agree, but it's hard to explain to my boss why did I purchase 60 licenses and still have to rely on Adobe Reader for printing.Timur Born wrote:"Stroke Adjust" is a problem with Editor for quite a long time now. It seems that quite fundamental changes are needed to fix it, else we likely would have seen this changed/fixed earlier already.
This problem coupled with other print related issues is why I keep using Adobe Reader for more complex documents that need correct reproduction. Fortunately there is this small "Open in" button at the lower right corner of Editors window.
That is somewhat correct, as monitors are laid out in a grid pattern smoothing is only noticeable when the object departs from the "Grid". If the object would partially pass through a pixel, that is when smoothing is noticeably applied, this emulates a line being smooth by tricking the human eye.Timur Born wrote:Yes, Editor only seems to use smoothing on lines that are not straight horizontal or vertical.
I was unable to reproduce this, do you have a sample document, or are you able to send screenshots displaying the format tab and zoom level so that we can observe this?Timur Born wrote:Editor seems to paint non straight lines too thick, at least for 2 pt and smaller. This affects both lines drawn as comments and the lines used for the perimeter tool.
Could I also ask to take a look at that document?Timur Born wrote:There are also still a bit of an inconsistency with thin lines. I have a document where thin lines form a rectangle/box. In Adobe without smoothing the horizontal and vertical lines form a perfect 90° corner up to 800% zoom, then the lines turn from 1 pixel to more and reveal that they don't form a perfect corner in that they don't fully line up to each other (pixel missing in the outer corner). In Editor they change back and forth between perfect corner and non-perfect corner at various zoom steps. Not a big deal, though.
Only on straight lines where Editor does no smoothing at all, while Adobe still applies the same grade of smoothing that is applied to curved lines.TrackerSupp-Daniel wrote:Evidently Adobe applies heavier smoothing that we do, giving lines a more "Flowy" appearance, while ours is slightly more rigid, resulting in a more "Clean cut" appearance for freehand lines.
This becomes evident when you disable line smoothing. With smoothing enabled curved lines are smoothed (= thinned + gray pixels) to appear thinner, straight lines don't change. With smoothing disabled curved lines become too thick, because those smoothed gray pixels then are turned to full color ones instead of being empty.I was unable to reproduce this, do you have a sample document, or are you able to send screenshots displaying the format tab and zoom level so that we can observe this?
I append a sample document in the next post and here are several examples of what I wrote earlier. All examples are upscaled to 400% using nearest neighbor for easier observation. One exception is the example of thin lines smoothing in Acrobat at 100% zoom, which is upscaled to 800%.Could I also ask to take a look at that document?
Unfortunately, no. All examples below at 100% (0 pt stroke size), notice how only straight lines are properly affected by "Adjust Stroke".Tracker Supp-Stefan wrote:at 100% things look good.
This remark puzzles me. Please be so kind and take another look at all the examples I prepared for you, because they contradict what you just wrote. I will repeat this in steps in order of importance again:After adjusting horizontal/vertical lines may look stronger (they are aligned on grind, and even line width is aligned).
Can you send us PDF file(s) used for this test?Anyway, for the time being I advice against using Stroke Adjust unless where it solves a specific problem in your PDF as mentioned in this thread here. I also suggest that Editor does *not* enable it by default, because the lack of anti-aliasing on straight horizontal and vertical lines is detrimental to the perceived resolution of such lines.
"Auto" and "On" are not the same.What is the difference between using Stroke Adjust "Auto" and "On"? Seems to me that "Auto" and "On" are the same, in which case there should not be an "Auto" option at all.
Anyway, for the time being I advice against using Stroke Adjust unless where it solves a specific problem in your PDF as mentioned in this thread here. I also suggest that Editor does *not* enable it by default, because the lack of anti-aliasing on straight horizontal and vertical lines is detrimental to the perceived resolution of such lines.