Plot To PDF Font Error

[strimenos]

When i use the DWGtoPDF feature the letters(that are written in Greek) do not appear correctly at in the pdf. instead i get black dots where each greek word should have written. by the way i use windows 7 with civil 2010 3d
anyboby got an idea why this occurs

[Sinc]

I have no idea.

But I just ran into a very similar issue, while attempting to use the new DWGtoPDF drivers to create PDFs. My drawings used the Sheet Set Manager, and I have some fields set to the shifted-space (ALT+0160), to suppress that "#######" string that the SSM puts into blank fields (will Autodesk ever fix that?).

For some reason, the new DWGtoPDF drivers were converting the shifted-space characters to two black dots, just as you say, and I would get an error about missing fonts whenever I opened the PDF. I fixed it by completely deleting the Fields from the drawing - not an ideal solution, but in this case, it was easy enough to recreate the Fields, should I decide later that I wish to use them.

This was using the DWGtoPDF Bonus Pack for C3D 2009, also on Windows 7.

-- Sinc
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[anthony.nr]

Hi,
Had similar type of problems graphics or text missing.
PDF995 solved the problem.

[Anonymous]

TrueType fonts by chance?

[Sinc]

It seems to be a problem with the new DWGtoPDF drivers, because I never saw the problem before.

-- Sinc
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[jf_arbique]

I've had the same problem. Here is a solution. In plot dialog box, with the DWG to PDF printer selected, hit the properties button.
Then, in device and document settings tab, select Custom properties, and hit the custom properties button.
In the font handling section, select capture all, and As geometry.

This should do it !

JFA

[Sinc]

The only problem with that is that it essentially returns the driver to its previous behavior, where all text was converted to graphics and the file size grows many times larger. I just tried a test with a mostly-empty title page, and without capturing fonts, the PDF was 300KB. With font capture turned on, the PDF was 1.2MB.

Turning on font capture eliminated the font problems, however. I just wish I could find the offending text that is causing the problem. (It's complaining about font ArialMT, which as far as I know, is not being used... There must be a little piece of ArialMT somewhere, though...)

-- Sinc
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[Sinc]

I found another solution to the problem I was seeing.

It appears that I would get that error message whenever I included the degree symbol in the Arial font in my drawing. In an MTEXT object, if there is a degree symbol in a line, the entire line gets turned into garbage in the PDF.

I went into the PDF driver Custom Properties, and left it set to "Capture some", but then I hit "Edit font list..." and selected the Arial font. I then created the PDF again, and this time the PDF was created correctly, with no error message about a missing "ArialMT" font. The resulting file sizes:

Default settings: 350KB
Capture All "As Graphics": 1.3MB
Capture Some, select "Arial" in the list: 400KB

I got a garbage PDF using the default settings, but got a good PDF with both of the other settings. The "Capture All As Graphics" option really bloats the file size, however.

-- Sinc
http://www.ejsurveying.com
http://www.quuxsoft.com

[strimenos]

Problems Solved
Thanks

[rhdins]

I had the same problem.  Whenever I published a sheetset to pdf, or plotted a sheet to pdf, if there was a degree symbol, it would plot the whole line as a bunch of dots.  I edited the custom properties in the "Dwg to Pdf" plot style, and added the Arial font to the "Capture Some"   Now it works great.  Thanks.

[eleftheria.mar]

I had the same problem ! Your solution worked for me!

Thanks