OLE Object - Scaling issue when zooming/printing

[Lancasterm]

Have numerous AutoCAD drawings with a OLE object associated to different PDFs.   When you zoom or print the information, the OLE object is changing its scale.  If you perform a zoom extents, the drawing looks fine.   If you output the drawing, the OLE information is scaled/zoomed wrong.  If you look at a print preview it is correct until you zoom in/out while in the (print) preview.

Someone indicated the problem is related to Adobe Reader 11 and to uninstall it and just use Adobe Acrobat..

However that didn't resolve the issue either.   Any other thoughts?

I can reproduce this issue in AutoCAD 2013, 2104 and 2015.

[pendean]

Not sure I follow, sorry: are you not able to share any examples for us to see and test?

[christina.davis · Accepted solution]

Hi Lancasterm, 

I was able to reproduce this behavior, when using INSERTOBJ to embed an Adobe Acrobat PDF as an OLE. 

1. The issue is related to the Adobe version installed. You do want to uninstall the newer versions of Acrobat and Reader, but I also had to install Acrobat 9.5 from this link: http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/  . This will not fix OLE's that have already been inserted, but once inserted again the issue will not continue
2. Insert another OLE object type, like bmp image
3. The best option would be to use PDFATTACH to insert the PDF as an External Reference

It's not a final solution, and we are aware of the issue, but hopefully this will get you by until it can be fully resolved. 

Thank you 

[jggerth1]

I've found OLE to be not at that well implemented and with too many limitations.  Since you are trying to view PDFs in a drawing, it would seem the simplest approach to get quality output with recent version of Acad would be to use the PDFATTACH command, and skip the OLE hassle.

[martin_madaj]

Hi Christina,

has there been any further progress with resolving of this issue? I've noticed the same issue in Inventor 2017 and 2016. Using of Acrobat 9.5 nowadays is a hard workaround for my customers...

Thanks, Martin M.