topic Re: hatch problem printing pdf in AutoCAD Forum

hatch problem printing pdf

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 00:05:27 GMT

I've got the problem of the hatch full of random lines, I've tried all the suggestions but none of them worked. Disabling the smooth lines art in acrobat made the situation even worste because it make the lines even more visible, and changing autocad settings didn't do anything too. I tried to open the file with another viewer (microsoft edge) but the problem is still there.

Here's the file of the dawing and the pdf file and the screenshoot too.

In the pdf file you can see al the random lines from page 8.

Thank you

Re: hathc problem printing pdf

Alfred.NESWADBA — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 13:25:53 GMT

Hi,

please try to use layouts. Plotting from modelspace with such a mass of windows is really hard to get a specific page plottet (which would be so easy when using layouts).

Then please let us know which printer driver you used.

- alfred -

Re: hathc problem printing pdf

Alfred.NESWADBA — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 13:43:19 GMT

Hi again,

this is (attached) what I get using your drawing, AutoCAD 2020.1.2, driver = "AutoCAD PDF (High Quality Print).pc3" and "monochrome.ctb".

The result is different to yours, which setting from you is different to my one?

- alfred -

Re: hathc problem printing pdf

maratovich — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 15:12:03 GMT

This is normal. AutoCAD itself breaks a solid fill into polygons. The white lines that you see are the boundaries of the junction of the polygons. If you parse the file into Adobe Illustrator, you can see that all your fillings are essentially a set of triangular primitives.
(This is a feature of the graphics engine AutoCAD)

Re: hathc problem printing pdf

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:21:32 GMT

I tried printing from layout but nothing changed, I still have the lines in the pdf, I tried printing with the setting you're showing in the screenshoot but the lines are still there...

Re: hatch problem printing pdf

pendean — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:51:18 GMT

Your PDF was created in Adobe InDesign 15 to an Adobe driver: you also posted a DWG file without your plot style table.

Are you sure you're not adding to the problem by using all these non-AutoCAD tools and drivers?

If I plot your file using the MONOCHROME plot style table and to the DWG TO PDF driver in AutoCAD 2019 I see no streaks at all

Re: hatch problem printing pdf

maratovich — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 14:10:16 GMT

@pendean wrote:
If I plot your file using the MONOCHROME plot style table and to the DWG TO PDF driver in AutoCAD 2019 I see no streaks at all

This is not true. Your file also has streaks.

Re: hatch problem printing pdf

pendean — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 14:19:18 GMT

That's your PDF viewer settings then, see my screenshot from the same exact viewer, that's why I circled it for you.

OR.. change from a SOLID pattern to a very dense hatch pattern and that should help your PDF viewer handle the solid fills from AutoCAD. See if that helps.