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set a paper color

c_ly0745K37 — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 14:20:20 GMT

I am developing a card at the moment that would be used on phones at night. I then want to give it a dark background color when exporting to PDF so as not to harm the eyes.
I tried to define a fill color that matched the size of my paper and put it in the background, but this solution is buggy. Several layers disappear leaving me a pdf with only (or almost) only the fill color.
Do you have a solution? I thank you warmly.

Re: set a paper color

imadHabash — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 14:27:20 GMT

Hi,

Try HATCHTOBACK (Command) and see if any changes .

Re: set a paper color

c_ly0745K37 — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 14:38:48 GMT

This is already a solution that I have tried without success.

Re: set a paper color

imadHabash — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 15:21:27 GMT

We will give more help if you can attache here your CAD dwg file for testing .

Re: set a paper color

RSomppi — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 16:16:11 GMT

@c_ly0745K37 wrote:
I tried to define a fill color that matched the size of my paper and put it in the background, but this solution is buggy. Several layers disappear leaving me a pdf with only (or almost) only the fill color.

Try restricting the hatch so that none of it coincides with the other objects.

Re: set a paper color

pendean — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 16:23:38 GMT

It is often not enough to send stuff back, you also have to bring stuff forward: explore all the many options in DRAWORDER command in AutoCAD's HELP, I'll get you started here
https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-3DC76D6E-8F81-4803-8D0A-AA7541D6357E

Re: set a paper color

c_ly0745K37 — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 16:33:36 GMT

I don't really see how to do it, I'll send you the attached file

Re: set a paper color

pendean — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 16:51:06 GMT

@c_ly0745K37 wrote:

I don't really see how to do it, I'll send you the attached file

What is disappearing please? See attached PDFs from your files

Re: set a paper color

wispoxy — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:13:47 GMT

The default PublishToWebsite PNG.pc3 driver Properties > Custom Properties > Background Color > Select Color, then convert PNG to PDF. You'll need to create some custom paper sizes for the PNG driver that convert inches to pixals though.

Re: set a paper color

c_ly0745K37 — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:20:49 GMT

Hinnn ??

How did you do that? ha ha, when I export on my side, I get this

Re: set a paper color

wispoxy — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 18:23:34 GMT

Ok that's funny 🤣

Re: set a paper color

pendean — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 19:12:06 GMT

@c_ly0745K37 wrote:

Hinnn ??

How did you do that? ha ha, when I export on my side, I get this

CAD file showing you "how" to follow along with the instructions above was posted, start there.

HTH

Re: set a paper color

c_ly0745K37 — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 20:00:01 GMT

What file are you referring to?

Re: set a paper color

pendean — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 20:01:35 GMT

@c_ly0745K37 wrote:

What file are you referring to?

Scroll up to #8

Re: set a paper color

c_ly0745K37 — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:36:55 GMT

problem solved, I changed High Quality Print to DWG to PDF

Re: set a paper color

pendean — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:56:25 GMT

@c_ly0745K37 wrote:

problem solved, I changed High Quality Print to DWG to PDF

Can you explain please? Your shared DWG file was already set to do that

Re: set a paper color

wispoxy — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 19:07:35 GMT

If what you said is true, the problem wasn't with the .dwg it's your .pc3 file and it varies per user default changes. High Quality Print.pc3 and DWG to PDF.pc3 are mostly the same output settings especially the color by default unless you changed it. The default for paper color of both is white.

You didn't mention you changed the default driver settings for your DWG to PDF.pc3 local driver. Really it works with High Quality Print.pc3 too if you match the driver settings. 😴

Re: set a paper color

c_ly0745K37 — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 19:10:11 GMT

Yes, my file was set to high quality. I changed it to DWG to PDF and there were no more presentation errors when exporting the document.
Yes, my paper remains white, it is the color of the hatching that I placed in the background which makes my paper color, for a document which will probably never be printed, but only consulted on the telephone.
Thank you for your help anyway.

Re: set a paper color

wispoxy — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 19:27:58 GMT

I understand you used a hatch, but they should have been the same. Maybe redownload the default High Quality Print.pc3 or match the settings to DWG to PDF.pc3.