Fill transparency turns solid when printing to PDF

[jamesdugger]

We are having a problem with fill transparencies (set to less than 100 percent) turning solid (opaque) upon printing to PDF. This is a recent development. It is happening on a machine running Design Review 2011, and a separate machine running version 2008. The machine running 2011 is using PDFfill a generic free PDF converter and the machine running 2008 is using Adobe Acrobat version 8. Same results for both. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[wube]

Thank you for your question.

Please follow these steps to print to PDF:

1. Click 'Advanced...' button in the Print dialog.
2. Turn on "Turn data into a bitmap before printing" option in the 'Advanced Print Options' dialog.
3. Click OK and Print.

Please let me know if this can be of help.

-Ben
ADR/DWF Customer Support

[jamesdugger]

wube,

Thank you! Everything is back to normal.

[hughl]

Thanks for this. I found your suggested solution and it has worked for me as well. The only issue i now have is that the file size of the PDF copy is about 10 times larger than it was before I selected the Bitmap option.

I reduce the dpi to 300 and reduced the colour quality and this helped - significantly reducing the file size but the quality was still OK.

Thanks again.

[davidtagney]

Hi, is it possible to permanently select "Turn Data into Bitmap before printing" so that I do not have to constantly go in and select this option every time I want to print (pdf or hard copy).