topic Empty EPS Plot in AutoCAD Forum

Empty EPS Plot

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 10:43:08 GMT

Hi!

I´m using Autocad 2015 and Photoshop CS5.

I created, according to guidelines, an EPS Plotter (Postscript level 1), when i launch Plot command everythings go fine, i also see the preview of the plot.

Then i save the Eps file and it´s totally blank, the files´weight is always the same (7 kB) and when i place it into Photoshop ( or i open it) it´s alway empty..

Can someone help me?

Thanks in advance

Re: Empty EPS Plot

imadHabash — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 06:09:11 GMT

Hi,

try to uncheck your plot transparency from plot dialoge.

Re: Empty EPS Plot

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 06:50:59 GMT

Hi,

the "plot transparency" was already unchecked..

Having elements with transparency via layer can be the reason of empty EPAS files?

Thanks

Re: Empty EPS Plot

wkohn — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 18:18:47 GMT

I just had this same issue. Turning transparency off in the plot settings or page setup might not do the trick. On a hunch I figured something was overriding that little checkbox. Turns out the variable "PLOTTRANSPARENCYOVERRIDE" was set to 2. I reset it back to 1 and my eps' are printing just fine now. Too bad I was two years too late on this post, but hopefully all you future readers are happy to have an answer.

Re: Empty EPS Plot

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 19:03:54 GMT

I am on Autocad 2019 and this did not work for me. I can print to a pdf using DWG to PDF but I could not print to an EPS file. After distilling, the plot came out blank. It shows up fine in the preview but blank after distilling.

Re: Empty EPS Plot

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 12:34:05 GMT

Try this (for Windows): go to Plotter Manager, choose the PsP2 (esp) plotter, go to Device and Document Settings Tab, go to the drop down menu of "Graphics", click on "Vector Graphics" , go and change the "Dithering". I changed it from "Hardware Pattern Order" to "Hardware Scatter Dither" . It did the job for me.