Printing with Adobe

[owenmull]

I've been having issues with Adobe recently. In one particular drawing and one drawing only, when I Export-->PDF, and then attempt to plot said PDF, Adobe locks up. According to Adobe, once a printer is selected, under Advanced settings, 'Print as Image' should be checked. It never was for us, and doing this did allow me to print the file, but colors look like dog excrement.

Ive done this several times before, no issues. I can print other PDFs created from other drawings no issue at all, the problem is related to this one particular drawing. Im wondering if this has something to do with the Adobe/Autodesk functionality.

Any ideas?

[MATRIX3DSURVEYS]

Select a Layout Tab > Page Setup Manager > Select DWG-PDF.pc3 as the Printer

After you have printed to a PDF you can Open the file with Adobe Acrobat X and change file compression settings if you need to make it smaller to email.

Acrobat also has some settings on the TOOLS menu to control how the image is sent to Color Laser printers and plotters so you don't lose data Tiles in the checker board. This problem happens sometimes with detailed background images. I usually print to PDF then use Acrobat to send the image to the Plotter or Laser printer. They print a lot faster that way.

Jim

Matrix3DSurveys.

[owenmull]

Ok, I'll fool around with that more, thanks.

[MATRIX3DSURVEYS]

I'm sitting i front of a Workstation now. In Acrobat X there is an advanced TAB select Print Production and Preflight The errors in the file will be marked file needs to be saved to a diffrent name, Then and Analize and Fix selected. The process flattens the file so you lose the layers but it wont confuse the printer.

When Printing from C3D use The layout Tab and Select DWG - PDF.pc3 as the printer. (The Export PDF seems to have problems) But I have not had any problems with the DWG - PDF.pc3.  Make sure you use the Autocad supplied pc3 file (there are probably 4 diffrent PDF printers listed; the pc3 printer is the only one that works properly.

Jim

Matrix3DSurveys

[owenmull]

I use the  DWG to PDF.pc3 config, and printing both methods still yields the same result, either by export or plot.

[MATRIX3DSURVEYS]

I would do an Audit and Purge on the drawing. Save the drawing and use the Map Import Function to get the data in a new drawing. See if that cleans things up.  If that don't work next step would be a clean install to fix any corupt dll's

Jim

[owenmull]

Already ahead of you. Audit and purged, no results. It only happens on this one dwg and only this dwg, so I know it isn't a C3D / install issue. 

Ill keep looking, thanks.