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Issue with DWG to PDF plots not capturing fonts properly

shelmer
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Issue with DWG to PDF plots not capturing fonts properly

shelmer
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Hello,

I'm using Civil 3D 2016, and have an OLE Excel table.

 

I'm finding Adobe PDF exporter is working as it should, treating the text contained in the excel table as fonts, and creating a clear PDF.  DWG to PDF, however, is always converting the table to a raster image, no matter which way I toggle the settings relating to font capturing and converting text to geometry.  I'd like to be able to use DWG to PDF, for various reasons.  Has anyone had any luck getting this driver to NOT rasterize and OLE Excel table?

 

Thanks!

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john.vellek
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HI @shelmer,

 

To the best of my understanding, OLE is always going to be plotted as raster.  If you plot using your non-AutoCAD driver and then try a PDFimport do the table lines show up as vector?

 

TO get a clean raster version I just increase the raster and vector DPI as high as I can. The result looks pretty good.

 

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Can you share a sample PDF using your driver?


John Vellek


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shelmer
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I'm looking at this again, and I think you are right.  Adobe is creating rasterized text, but doing a better job than DWG to PDF.  I do notice that the Adobe driver has a specific OLE object quality setting, separate from the typical DPI setting.  On my machine the Adobe OLE quality setting is at "Best".

 

I have also played with the resolution in the DWG to PDF driver as you suggested, and that make a big difference.  My issue is that we deal with a lot or air photos.  At 600 DPI, the PDF is an acceptable size, but at 1200 DPI, the email will blow up to un-emailable sizes, and the client becomes displeased.  :cara_con_una_leve_sonrisa:

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john.vellek
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Hi @shelmer,

 

You are welcome to send me a sample drawing with your OLE object. Perhaps I can make it a bit better with some playing around with settings. I am happy to give it a try.


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shelmer
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Thank you.  I think I've got a handle on the settings.  I was just hoping maybe I overlooked a way for it to be capturing that text as font data. I think the only way to truly do that is to use AutoCAD's own table object.