qball Posted March 24, 2011 Posted March 24, 2011 I have Arial ttf on my drawing. I plot to pdf using PDF X-change. The cad and the pdf appear fine. Then we send to the printers and the Arial font comes back on paper really narrow. Not being at the printers I don't know how the pdf appears on their screen, but I assume it's the same as mine if we both use Adobe. They can Flatten the pdf using Photoshop which apparently helps but takes way too long. (How that works I have no idea). So what I tried was in the Plot Dialog, change the pc3 file Properties, Graphics, Truetype as GRAPHICS. That seems to have fixed the problem, but I've only tried one sheet like that. What are the differences between TrueType as text and TrueType as graphics? I believe Graphics option makes the file bigger, but other than that is there any harm in it? Quote
SLW210 Posted March 24, 2011 Posted March 24, 2011 Are you using a 3rd party PDF plotter? I haven't a clue about PDF X-change. Why are you not just use DWG to PDF.pc3? I use Merge (Lines Overwrite), make sure your Font is included in the Font List under Custom Properties. I have done pretty good plotting PDFs with the DWG to PDF.pc3 in AutoCAD 2011. Quote
qball Posted March 24, 2011 Author Posted March 24, 2011 pdf X-change is the 3rd party. Before I worked here it was implemented because it made smaller files. Now it appears DWGtoPDF is close to the same, but has the same Wipeout / Textmask issues. So I haven't spent the time to convert over. Next week I'll try plotting with DWGtoPDF and see if the results are the same. I hadn't looked at the Custom Properties before. Does it have to do with Embedding Fonts? Arial is under "never embed fonts". Quote
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