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I've created a graphic using 0.25" width lines and filled rectangles. Now when I scale the object for a larger document, the rectangles shrink, the length of the lines shrink, but the width of the lines stay constant. I need to shrink both width and length of lines when I shrink.

The only way I can find is exporting the object as .eps, then inserting it and scaling then. The problem with this approach is that it's (a) ugly and (b) turns the background of the object from transparent to white.

There has got to be a better way.

A workaround: Modify - Convert - to contour
If you convert all your objects to "contour", line widths will follow scaling. The downside is the objects lose some other characteristics, like:

• Text converted to contour isn't editable as text anymore
• Connector lines won't follow connected objects

For those reasons, you may want to make a copy of your drawing to convert to contour, and keep the original drawing for future editing.

Thank you! The limits you listed don't hurt me at all.