PDFs with gradients

[mallochtaylor]

I have made a PDF of a drawing created in Illustrator.  Some components of the drawing in Illustrator have gradients - i.e. tone fades linearly from one side of an area to another.  The PDF looks great when I open it in Acrobat, but when insert it in my drawing as a PDF underlay, the gradients are gone.  What am I doing wrong?

[jggerth1]

Probably nothing wrong on your part - just a limitation of the PDF Attach.  I'll suggest exporting the PDF to a .PNG format, and attaching that as an Image.  You could also try TIF, but i generally have better results in Acad with a .PNG.

[mallochtaylor]

I was hoping that I had done something wrong.  I like the PDF technique because it scales perfectly, and I can snap it into location.  .PNG doesn't offer the latter.

[geewi00]

Delete the gradient in illustrator and redraw them again in autocad? Autocad has a gradient hatch. Then again...this probably is not the answer you're looking for....