QGIS printing to file, shading?

Question

Hi I am not even sure how to ask this question and I have googled what i think is wrong with no success.

When i create a map with different shadings on it, it looks perfect until it is wrote to pdf.

I want the hatching/shading to display as it does on screen.

What i see on screen

what is printed

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I know it is something to do with zoom and display but how do i change the settings.
It's hard to tell from your pictures, are the hatchings the same but differently sized? in which case it is to do with DPI?
Yeah sorry about the images, i am trying to maintain the clients confidentiality. The second image is as a result of file>print>print to pdf. Gave up on exporting to pdf as it was having funny consequences. Same result when i export as any image type.

Gerald O'Reilly · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-25 10:49:31Z

Ok Thanks for all the help. The best was to reduce it to screen quality. However i did not want to sacrifice the background mapping.

Perhaps my question was not clear enough but the answer i stumbled upon was inherently simple.

Previously (as shown above) i was using Simple Fill, if i change to line fill it give the results as follow:

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So thanks again and i would not have come across it without your perseverance.

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