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Text in exported PDF is not as "whole" text

ReneRepina — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 05:50:45 GMT

Hello.

When we export to PDF and we have some texts included, they are not exported as "whole" texts.

To give you an example:

Our Documentation department exports our drawings to PDF. Then they want to "edit" them in CorelDRAW, but every letter in text is as single symbol, not as "whole" text to "edit".

When using "print" option and exporting via "PDFCreator", it works OK.

Is normal PDF export limited to such actions?

Can we change any setting to fix that?

P.S.:

We want to use "normal" export, because we are exporting it via iLogic.

Best regards,

Rene Repina

Re: Text in exported PDF is not as "whole" text

Gabriel_Watson — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 03:40:52 GMT

Are you able to use CutePDF when using the print iLogic?

Long shot, but read these and check if they are of any help:
https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/The-text-of-an-imported-PDF-file-will-not-be-recognized-as-a-text-but-is-converted-to-polylines-in-AutoCAD-based-products.html
https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-create-selectable-and-searchable-text-in-a-PDF-from-AutoCAD.html

Re: Text in exported PDF is not as "whole" text

ReneRepina — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 17:27:00 GMT

Hello @Gabriel_Watson .

Probably not, because there is a "PDF Translator" implemented inside Inventor / iLogic, nothing else, at least what I am aware of.
Do you have any suggestion on how to try it with "CutePDF", if even possible?

I have checked the suggested links. If I remember correctly, we do not have a problem with letters not being letters, but the whole text is splitted into single letter, so basically it should be 1 text box, but there are actually several text boxes, but with single letters.

I did more digging around and found next links. It seems that they should work calling Print Manager via iLogic. I will test it soon.

Links:
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ilogic-and-vb-net-forum/print-to-pdf-with-ilogic/td-p/8164005

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/font-bar-code-dwg-to-pdf/td-p/5514508

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ilogic-and-vb-net-forum/printing-to-pdf-ilogic-using-printmanager-defining-file-name/td-p/9386941

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ilogic-and-vb-net-forum/c-print-to-pdf-without-pdf-addin-savecopyas/td-p/3711248

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ilogic-and-vb-net-forum/printing-to-pdf-using-api/td-p/758334

Re: Text in exported PDF is not as "whole" text

ReneRepina — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 10:25:24 GMT

Hello.

I did the testing and opened a case with Autodesk. It seems it is either a bug or a limitation to this. More information about the progress is going to be on below article link.

Article link:

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/After-exporting-the-Inventor-drawing-to-PDF-the-text-is-recognized-as-a-symbol-instead-whole-text-in-CorelDRAW.html

Best regards,

Rene Repina