Contour labels on pdf

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Hey

I am having difficulties with plotting labels on pdf. I am using 2011 map3d. I tried to find solution from other forum also but unfortunately so far no good. Therefore i thought that maybe someone from here has a good idea or possibly a solution for my problem. I am going to post my post from other forum:

At the moment i am struggeling with labelling contours. Basically i have shape file which draws out isometrical lines, then i label contours, everything looks nice/works before plotting but when i plot it on pdf, it basically seems to do a selective plotting of contour labels (all the contours are plotted nicely). Some contour areas are covered nicely, some have only few left, but most parts have none. What could be the problem?
As always, thanks in advance.

Some additional information. My drawing is basically large tiff and shape file on top of it. Contour lines are covering slightly bigger area than the tiff file. Strange thing is that contour labels that are actually plotted are mostly drawn on the bottom and left part of the drawing (plus they also seems to be somewhat following the vertical measurements, as if they are only drawn to a certain height or so), mostly out of the tiff part, but also partially continue on top of tiff, until are not plotted anymore. When i want to view contour labels on the whole drawing area, i basically have to "dr" tiff to back, altough drawing order is set so that tiff is drawn first and then other are placed. Sometimes it just boggles my mind why CAD acts like this. If it wouldnt draw any contour labels, i would understand, but it basically does it partially/regionally somehow and even then there are those regions, where labels are drawn only partially, but are still drawn. Hope this all makes sense. Can anyone maybe have any ideas?

I have been looking for the possible solution for hours by now and the more i try the more confusing it gets.
It has got to be something to do with the size of the labels compared to the screen. At the moment size context is set to "map space" and when i look at the drawing in model, i can see all the labels nicely (they are drawn in absolute units and are not relative to screen). When i look at it in the layout (layout scale is set to 1 mm=1), i can only see lower part of the drawing covered in labels. As i increase the size units, it gradually draws labels to the upper northern part also.

I was suggested to export the contours and labels as a dwg,open it and then plot it, but what happens is that map3d seems to be able to export only 2000 items (labels). I am sure it would work, if i somehow could manage to export all the contour labels. 

I am going to add a picture also just to give a better understanding of the problem. Polyline marks the tiff image location and basically the black dots are the labels that are being plotted.

The thing is, that it actually copies exactly 2000 labels into text, which seems to be corresponding to the "rasterthreshold" command limit of 2000, is it just a coincidence?

[NateMoore · Accepted solution]

It sounds as if you are seeing the 2000 label limit described here: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=10408989&linkID=9240857 .   Try out the registry workaround described there - you should get more lablels, though printing may take quite a long while, based on your screenshot.

Good luck!

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Thank you, i will certainly give it a try. If it works, i´ll owe you a thousand thanks(y).

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Thank you alot NateMoore!
What i did was that i increased the maximum number of display manager feature labels that are displayed by configuring the Windows Registry to specify new value (in my case, instead of 2000 i upped it to 35 000, which was almost exactly what i needed) for the maximum number of labels displayed. After changing the registry, i just plotted it as usually, it just took alot more time. Heres know-how link for the future struggelers: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=10408989&linkID=9240857

Or if the link goes down, just search http://usa.autodesk.com/ for "increasing maximum number of display manager feature labels displayed"