I'm currently using FreeHand (vector graphics programme).
I can export as PDF file from FreeHand but it's not very sophisticated especially with fonts - the whole font is included which makes for very large files.
The files have a hatch fill in them - here's an example PDF screenshot - file made by Freehand (@125% - looks good)
http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/2584/freehand125percent.png
PDFCreator produces very lean files, they are technically good, but for some reason they dont look good in Adobe Acrobat at lower zoom (also @ 125% - hatch looks very uneven, jagged)
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/5523/pdfc125percent.png
When I zoom into the PDFCreator-PDF, it looks perfect - so I think this is just a display issue - if I was going to press, I dont believe this would be a problem, but that's not the case here. (I trying to get a sample of my work together for display.)
Any tips? Is there any settings I could change? I'm using pre-press, 400dpi - I tried 600dpi but it didnt make any difference - I cant see any other settings that would influence this....
Thanks for any help!
Tom
(Images are hosted by imageshack - not sure how long they last, hopefully long enough!)
[edit] forgot to add my details: XP home SP3, latest PDFCreator - PDFCreator-1_2_1_setup.exe [/edit]