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Text issues in PDF after publishing

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 02:49:39 GMT

I'm using Autocad 2014. After publishing mulitiple layouts to PDF using the DWG to PDF.pc3, the text in the PDF looks blotchy. It will plot correctly; it is just an issue with how the text is sent to Acrobat. We are using Acrobat 9 full version. The font is Romans. I have attached a screenshot so you can see what we get when we open the pdf in adobe. We're using a ctb file setup for line weight by color. I have tried changing the end\join setting of that color to round. I have changed the custom properties of the dwg to pdf.pc3 to process all text as geometry. No success clearing up the blotchy text.

Re: Text issues in PDF after publishing

filipefrancisco — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 11:25:30 GMT

Try to change the type of the font... this happens because the autocad romans is different of the romans in adobe

Re: Text issues in PDF after publishing

ampster40 — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:00:38 GMT

Within Adobe, go to Preferences, Page Display window. In there, play with the Rendering options (3rd section down). I don't recall the specific set of options that fix this issue, but you may need to disable one of them to be able to disable/enable others.

Re: Text issues in PDF after publishing

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:34:22 GMT

It's not only the text. It affects some geometry as well. I didn't think this was an Adobe issue. I thought that the problem was from the way Autocad output the PDF. I have attached a different image showing the issue with hatch and other geometry, not just the text.

Phillip

Re: Text issues in PDF after publishing

pendean — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 18:33:26 GMT

That's a display setting in your chosen PDF viewer: as stated earlier.
True fix was also noted, switchin to a generic PDF viewer also eliminate the display problem (since they don't have to load bloatware like Adobe).

Do this test: zoom into the PDF in your viewer: problem goes away. No, it's not a miracle, preset Adobe display settings are no longer in effect that's all.

Good luck.

Re: Text issues in PDF after publishing

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 19:31:03 GMT

I am having a similar problem. I tried changing the display options, but no change. This happens when I do a batch plot. The black blotches will wipeout text at random (see attachment). Will place random thick black lines on the print out (see attachment). If I print the sheet individually, it comes out clean. Is there a batach plot issue?

I do not use the wipeout command. Sometimes, I will select add background to the mtext. But like I said, it is not a consistent problem.

Re: Text issues in PDF after publishing

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 13:44:42 GMT

In addition to blotchy text... the text is not searchable or selectable in the PDF.

Changing to a TrueType Font fixes the problem but we use the AutoCAD RomanS everywhere so I hope there is a Publish setting solution...

Re: Text issues in PDF after publishing

pendean — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 16:49:57 GMT

You need to be using 2016 versions of AutoCAD if you want searchable SHX font text.

Re: Text issues in PDF after publishing

Anonymous — Fri, 13 May 2016 01:11:27 GMT

After reading your post, I found that these setting in Adobe Acrobat worked for me. See attached

Re: Text issues in PDF after publishing

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 11:26:04 GMT

I've faced the same Problem and found the solution by installing the program DOPDF from this link:

http://www.dopdf.com/download.php

and choose it as a virtual printer .

Re: Text issues in PDF after publishing

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 14:03:25 GMT

try turning off "Plot Transparencies"

Re: Text issues in PDF after publishing

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 14:16:55 GMT

I have this same problem in AutoCAD Electrical 2019.

I can't ask all of my customers to change their Adobe settings just to properly view a PDF that AutoCAD Electrical has generated.

Adobe Acrobat Reader is a standard program for viewing PDFs, probably "the" standard program for doing so. PDFs generated by AutoCAD should display properly in Adobe when Adobe has the "out of the box" default settings.

Is there any way to change the AutoCAD output to fix the problem, without asking all of my customers and builders to edit their Adobe settings?