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Line thickness of SVG changes by exporting docx as PDF
Dear Community, I observed that the line thicknesses of SVG pictures in a docx document get thicker when exported to PDF. I got the impression that Office 365 (Version 1812) changes the line thic...
michael-buschbeck-ms: Thanks! This solution worked perfectly for me.
After going to the trouble of converting a bunch of nasty raster images to scalable vector format in a rather large document, I was so disappointed to find upon converting to pdf that some lines had thickened to the point that some of the graphics were no longer legible.
Your solution to scale the original images and the further tip to do so relatively painlessly in a text editor saved the day. Thanks for the detailed explanation and instructions.
Just in case anyone else from the future finds this post and can't be bothered with editing files just to print things out correctly.
A easier work around is to print to PDF not save as a PDF. You'll miss out on some options like compliancy but if just getting things to print reliably is key this might be easier
As a side note to get text/objects to print properly remember to convert them to paths in Inkscape or to Shapes in Word (this is more practical for illustrations with some text elements not great for large amounts of copy)