: Illustrator hairlines when importing to Photoshop I know there's a million questions about the hairline bug in Illustrator. However, I couldn't find an answer to my specific problem so I'm asking

@Goswami567

I tested it before writing the following. I recreated the dumbbell with the same shapes you had, the triangle, the rectangles and the rounded shape on the top left side where the problem happens.

The reason why you get hairlines in Photoshop when you open the PDF AI file is because your actual Adobe Illustrator dumbbell image has many SEPARATE shapes all stuck together. They might look ok in Illustrator, even when zooming above 1000%, but the solution I found is to make the shapes overlap onto each other to make sure there is not even a slight tiny gap in-between the shapes that you cannot visually see on your screen, but that Photoshop will show once imported. Also, as a double protection and to make your vector image "bullet proof" you should use the Pathfinder tool in Illustrator to unite all the shapes that are touching each other, before saving it.

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