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ArcGIS to PDF: Missing Geometries

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Wow... has it really been that long!?!  Well, there's no sense trying to explain the absence other than by saying 'life happens' Onto the post... I had a map created in ArcGIS but whenever I output the map to PDF there was missing linework?  The actual map looked like this: But the PDF output looked like this: (Note: the fuzziness is due to transparency on the objects, which in turn are exported as raster data) At first I thought it was a lineweight issue, and maybe the lineweight was too thin (not that that is a reason for it not showing up but, hey).  So I tried increasing the lineweight and outputting again, but still no luck.  I thne noticed that it was actually outputting a few of the geometries: So that got me thinking about why it would display some, but now all, of the geometries.  Hmmm, well with ArcGIS being quite 'picky' about 'valid' geometries I decided to run the Check Geometry Tool ...  Sure enough, self intersecti