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    <description>&lt;P&gt;All PDF prints from AutoCAD through PDFCreator (a software by pdfforge) are not searchable.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I print manuals from AutoCAD to PDF using PDFCreator. It works a lot better for me than using any other drivers. However, the PDF files are not searchable. If i try to search any text, it says that there are no search results. I can also see that there are no layers in the PDF.&lt;BR /&gt;Any print form Excel or Word, or any other app, is searchable. It is just AutoCAD that will not add PDF layers.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;This is a big problem as my customers can not search for anything and these are big PDF files to page through.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Is there a way to add PDF layers when printing trough PDF Creator from AutoCAD so that the files are searchable?&lt;BR /&gt;Please let me know so that I can be sure whether something can be done or I should just use a different driver.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 12:13:43 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>RobertMyb</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2024-11-26T12:13:43Z</dc:date>
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      <description>&lt;P&gt;All PDF prints from AutoCAD through PDFCreator (a software by pdfforge) are not searchable.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I print manuals from AutoCAD to PDF using PDFCreator. It works a lot better for me than using any other drivers. However, the PDF files are not searchable. If i try to search any text, it says that there are no search results. I can also see that there are no layers in the PDF.&lt;BR /&gt;Any print form Excel or Word, or any other app, is searchable. It is just AutoCAD that will not add PDF layers.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;This is a big problem as my customers can not search for anything and these are big PDF files to page through.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Is there a way to add PDF layers when printing trough PDF Creator from AutoCAD so that the files are searchable?&lt;BR /&gt;Please let me know so that I can be sure whether something can be done or I should just use a different driver.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 12:13:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>RobertMyb</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-11-26T12:13:43Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Betreff: AutoCAD prints from PDFCreator are not adding layer information</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/autocad-prints-from-pdfcreator-are-not-adding-layer-information/m-p/13174645#M1142770</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;" are not searchable"&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;That's on you / your settings and object/data.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Are you talking about TrueType-Font or SHX-Font Texts?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;For TrueType, make sure this option is anabled in your .pc3 configuration file &amp;lt;see my picture below&amp;gt;,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;if this doesn't work: Please share a sample drawing&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="cadffm_0-1732623977360.png" style="width: 600px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1438662i148F07875597AEE5/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;amp;px=400" role="button" title="cadffm_0-1732623977360.png" alt="cadffm_0-1732623977360.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;"I can also see that there are no layers in the PDF"&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;That will work for full supported drivers only, the autodesk-drivers&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 12:32:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>cadffm</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-11-26T12:32:34Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: AutoCAD prints from PDFCreator are not adding layer information</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/autocad-prints-from-pdfcreator-are-not-adding-layer-information/m-p/13174755#M1142772</link>
      <description>Ask PDFForge Support about their driver if the tips above from &lt;a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/71745"&gt;@cadffm&lt;/a&gt; are not easy to follow.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Why do you think a free PDF driver is better? Elaborate.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;In the meantime... &amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt;...or I should just use a different driver....&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Use the AutoCAD built-in PDF drivers, they are better layer-aware that 3rd party PDF drivers.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;SHX fonts require you to turn on PDFSHX variable (look it up in HELP): is that what you are using? Your long post never actually mentions any relevant details that I could find so that's a guess that should fix the issue.&lt;BR /&gt;TTF fonts do not require anything special, but your PDF driver has to be AutoCAD-friendly. Maybe it is not.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 13:37:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>pendean</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-11-26T13:37:16Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Betreff: AutoCAD prints from PDFCreator are not adding layer information</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/autocad-prints-from-pdfcreator-are-not-adding-layer-information/m-p/13174835#M1142781</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/71745"&gt;@cadffm&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks for replying.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I am actually not sure which fonts are which, to be honest, but I think it is True Type.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;So I did set the true type as text and it worked, but only if I print from model space or print from the default page layouts ('Layout1" and Layout2" that appears when you open a drawing). It still does not work if I print from an inserted drawing template (.dwt) that I have setup for different drawing types. I have setup the plot style the same as what I did when I printed from model space or the default page layouts, but the PDF's are still not searchable. Only if I print from model space or default layouts.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I need it to work from my setup layouts. Can you help me with this?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I attached a dwg of one page from the manual and one default layout and one setup layout. I just removed all logos and company information.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:09:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>RobertMyb</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-11-26T14:09:54Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Betreff: AutoCAD prints from PDFCreator are not adding layer information</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/autocad-prints-from-pdfcreator-are-not-adding-layer-information/m-p/13174869#M1142787</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/7101837"&gt;@RobertMyb&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;... I am actually not sure which fonts are which, to be honest, but I think it is True Type.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;it appears you are using TTF fonts, excellent.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Looks like your 3rd party PDFdriver is not AutoCAD-friendly? Zoom into the text of a PDF from there, does not like like this by chance?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="pendean_0-1732630706436.png" style="width: 871px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1438721i6726B15449629A76/image-dimensions/871x527?v=v2" width="871" height="527" role="button" title="pendean_0-1732630706436.png" alt="pendean_0-1732630706436.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Those are just graphics, not actual text.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;This is what searchable text in a PDF looks like (below and attached), crisp edges and no streaks&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="pendean_1-1732630815351.png" style="width: 848px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1438724i5D293563058D9365/image-dimensions/848x496?v=v2" width="848" height="496" role="button" title="pendean_1-1732630815351.png" alt="pendean_1-1732630815351.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/7101837"&gt;@RobertMyb&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Why is your window only 81mm in width? did you loose track of your scales? Your DWGunit setting are set to mm&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="pendean_0-1732632566931.png" style="width: 600px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1438737i632575ED2D221334/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;amp;px=400" role="button" title="pendean_0-1732632566931.png" alt="pendean_0-1732632566931.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:50:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>pendean</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-11-26T14:50:06Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Betreff: AutoCAD prints from PDFCreator are not adding layer information</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/autocad-prints-from-pdfcreator-are-not-adding-layer-information/m-p/13175023#M1142799</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Why do you not know which font type you are unsing?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Select a (M)Text, check out the STYLE setting, open this style (command STYLE, seleect the one and [Change], check out the used font,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;you will see some fonts with a TT Symbol (TrueType) and some with another Symbol (SHX).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;You are using TT as pendean stated before, the the answer is: Read my post above again!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Start PLOT command, select your printer, press the [Properties...] button right of the printer name&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;and follow my Screenshot above, change this setting to what I highlighted.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Q: Are you using the windows driver directly, or are you using a .pc3 file ?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Because if you want to change it, you (have to) create a .pc3 file and you have to use it in future (because the setting is stored in this file)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 15:19:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>cadffm</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-11-26T15:19:57Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Betreff: AutoCAD prints from PDFCreator are not adding layer information</title>
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      <description>&lt;P&gt;I just did not know how to check. But thank you for explaining.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I did do exactly what your post above said. Please read my post again!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I did exactly what you said and it worked. But it only works when I print from model space and default layouts. It still does not work on my drawing templates in layout space.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;But I will try to figure out why.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thank you.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I am using a .pc3 file.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2024 06:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>RobertMyb</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-11-27T06:14:00Z</dc:date>
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      <description>&lt;P&gt;Thank you.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I do not have a scaling issue. That is just a representation drawing of a door to fit on A4.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2024 06:15:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>RobertMyb</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-11-27T06:15:26Z</dc:date>
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      <description>&lt;P&gt;I figured out why it does not work on my templates. It was because I had the 'Plot Transparency' box ticked. Once I unticked it, it worked.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="RobertMyb_1-1732689823118.png" style="width: 600px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1439097i5145157D40F0C46B/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;amp;px=400" role="button" title="RobertMyb_1-1732689823118.png" alt="RobertMyb_1-1732689823118.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks again.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2024 06:44:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>RobertMyb</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-11-27T06:44:12Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Betreff: AutoCAD prints from PDFCreator are not adding layer information</title>
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      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;" and it worked. But it only works when I print from model space"&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Sorry, I ignored this part of your reply, I don't know why.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;You found the difference, it was a different plot/pagesetup:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The transparent option isn't supported 100% for (all?) 3rd party drivers, Acad prints as picture.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;It's works with the AutoDESK PDF drivers (only?)&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2024 07:38:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>cadffm</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-11-27T07:38:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: AutoCAD prints from PDFCreator are not adding layer information</title>
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      <description>&lt;P&gt;As for the layers - PDFCreator doesn't add that information. If you need the layers in your PDF, then use the &lt;STRONG&gt;DWG To PDF&lt;/STRONG&gt; printer.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2024 07:53:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Simon_Weel</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-11-27T07:53:28Z</dc:date>
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