Adobe Illustrator - question: (clothing design project) how thick are the lines?

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question: (clothing design project) how thick are the lines?

nono umasy

2007-07-18, 6:15 pm

Hello all,

I have a project for a client. The client wants to make sure my lines
can't be more than a quarter inch thick, has something to do with the
way they will attach the design to the garment.
My question is since Illustrator is relative in size, that is when you
blow it up the lines are relative to the size you blow it up to, is
there a way to find out how thick the lines are going to be.

The design/illustration dimensions are 24 inch by 24 inch so the
design will get blown up that big.

possible solution:
1. can I just edit my design, and then copy+paste it in photoshop and
check and see if the thinnest lines are atleast if not more than 8
pixels( which I gauge is about a quarter of an inch). is this a
possible solution?
2. is there another way to make sure the lines are a certain width?
thanks in advance.

I dont know why my previous post didnt go thru
n

Hank

2007-07-18, 10:14 pm

nono umasy wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a project for a client. The client wants to make sure my lines
> can't be more than a quarter inch thick, has something to do with the
> way they will attach the design to the garment.
> My question is since Illustrator is relative in size, that is when you
> blow it up the lines are relative to the size you blow it up to, is
> there a way to find out how thick the lines are going to be.
>
> The design/illustration dimensions are 24 inch by 24 inch so the
> design will get blown up that big.
>
> possible solution:
> 1. can I just edit my design, and then copy+paste it in photoshop and
> check and see if the thinnest lines are atleast if not more than 8
> pixels( which I gauge is about a quarter of an inch). is this a
> possible solution?
> 2. is there another way to make sure the lines are a certain width?
> thanks in advance.
>
> I dont know why my previous post didnt go thru
> n
>
You don't even need to 'blow it up', work at full scale (24 by 24) and
enter the size you want for your strokes, in inches, in the stroke
weight field. Or work at half size and reduce your strokes by 50%. You
can enter fractions of an inch into the stroke weight field, as opposed
to pixels, if you like, or even change stroke size units in
Illustrator/preferences. The strenght of Illustrator as a design tool is
that it is NOT relative; you have precise control of ALL aspects of your
work regardless of resolution or print size.

nono umasy

2007-07-19, 6:14 pm

On Jul 18, 6:00 pm, Hank <segra...@optonline.net> wrote:
> nono umasy wrote:
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>
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> You don't even need to 'blow it up', work at full scale (24 by 24) and
> enter the size you want for your strokes, in inches, in the stroke
> weight field. Or work at half size and reduce your strokes by 50%. You
> can enter fractions of an inch into the stroke weight field, as opposed
> to pixels, if you like, or even change stroke size units in
> Illustrator/preferences. The strenght of Illustrator as a design tool is
> that it is NOT relative; you have precise control of ALL aspects of your
> work regardless of resolution or print size.

cool. thanks for the info.