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Inventor 2012 - Export to PDF - Quality is Terrible

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Message 1 of 15
cascadety
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Inventor 2012 - Export to PDF - Quality is Terrible

Is it possible to increase the quality of exported pdf's from Inventor 2012?  Anything with a metalic (ie. black chrome) finish as a pdf looks terrible when compared to what is shown on screen.

Thanks

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Message 2 of 15
cascadety
in reply to: cascadety

Really?? No experts on boad that know a procedure to increase the quality of pdf's created using the "export" function from Inventor 2012? 

Let me clarify:

On screen part/assembly/drawing quality - Excellent

Print quality - Excellent

PDF quality - Marginal (as in bitmap / low-res)

 

Any Ideas?

Thanks

Message 3 of 15
mpatchus
in reply to: cascadety

Maybe an example of what you are seeing would help.

I've gotten reasonable results of PDF exports (see attached)

Not nearly as good as rendered images, but decent enough to use in-house.

Mike Patchus - Lancaster SC

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Message 4 of 15
cascadety
in reply to: mpatchus

Hey,

Thanks for the response and suggestion.  Your pdf seems to have much better clarity than any I create using the export command.  See attached example "mesh.pdf" file.

 

Our company uses BlueBleam pdf creator for the majority of our pdfs.  However, it only intergrates with AutoCAD and not Inventor.  Using BlueBeam as a printer in Inventor produces worse results than exporting.  See attached "mesh BB.pdf" file .

 

Additionally, the goal for these pdf's is to use out-of-house. 

Message 5 of 15
Ryan.Martinez
in reply to: cascadety

Did you try changing the vector resolution in the export options?

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Message 6 of 15
blair
in reply to: Ryan.Martinez

Did you increase the DPI resolution when using the Export to PDF (in the Options when doing the export).


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Message 7 of 15
cascadety
in reply to: blair

Thanks for the responses.  Increased the resoluion to 4800 and it did help some.  It appears to be the nature of the coil spring mesh in the black chrome surface tho.  Parts in other finishes look much better.

Thanks again

 

Message 8 of 15
elixin77
in reply to: cascadety

My company uses CutePDF writer, and it works for what we do.  Whenever I print something that has a perforated or checker plate material applied to it, it comes out just fine.

Message 9 of 15
mpatchus
in reply to: cascadety

We have stopped using print add-ons to create the PDFs.  We've found exporting the file as a PDF produces better results than "printing" as a PDF.

Mike Patchus - Lancaster SC

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Message 10 of 15
elixin77
in reply to: mpatchus

Oh my, I did not realize how nice the export to PDF option is.  Blueprint quality is very much improved.

 

I'll be using the export feature from now on - thank you!

Message 11 of 15
Emil.Lewandowski
in reply to: elixin77

Hi,

When exporting to PDF from iam or ipt I can't change options in the export to PDF window.

Nothing happens when clicking the options.. button.

When exporting from dwg/idw it works fine. Anyone else having this problem?

 

/Emil

Message 12 of 15
mpatchus
in reply to: Emil.Lewandowski

I don't think the options are enabled for anything but the IDW/DWG mode.

Mike Patchus - Lancaster SC

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Message 13 of 15
blair
in reply to: Emil.Lewandowski

Correct, if you are in the modeling enviroment, you don't have any Export PDF options. You would be better to use the Export to graphics and select either the BMP, JPG or PNG options. You will have options/settings there.


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Message 14 of 15
PhilSaw
in reply to: blair

In 2012 you can export a model environment image to PDF?

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Message 15 of 15
PhilSaw
in reply to: PhilSaw

Oops, mis-read the post about "options" Smiley Embarassed

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