: How to stop illustrator from making my stroke bigger when duplicating file or Exporting? I have a file I've been working on and I placed in a link file of an Icon I previously made, and

@Cofer715

This is likely due to a size difference between the documents/artboards. Since strokes are given a set value (5px for example) their size can vary greatly, depending on the overal size of the document. A 5 pixel stroke on an object that's 2000px wide will seem much smaller than on one that's 100px wide.

I suggest you expand the appearance of anything that has a stroke.

Select anything you've applied a stroke to and go to Object > Expand...



The object on the left has been expanded, you can see that the stroke is now a physical path, instead of just a style, as on the right.



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