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Plots are different based on pdf program

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Plots are different based on pdf program

Anonymous
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So my company uses Bluebeam for PDFs but the customer is Adobe.  When a plot a drawing, it looks fine in Bluebeam but in Adobe the letters look different. How can I fix this?  The picture is how it looks in Adobe.

 

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Alfred.NESWADBA
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Hi,

 

you are referring to Bluebeam and to Adobe that they are showing different results ...

How is this related to AutoCAD (as this here is the AutoCAD forum)?

 

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pendean
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You need Adobe/Bluebeam Support Teams to solve your issue.

If you only want an AutoCAD solution, then stop using stick fonts (SHX), go with TTF "windows fonts" instead.
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Anonymous
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Well I thought maybe there was something I was doing in AutoCad that was causing, but now I'm guessing not.

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Alfred.NESWADBA
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Hi,

 

>> there was something I was doing in AutoCad

The word "AutoCAD" was not mentioned in your post, that's why I'm asking.


In general, when you use command _PLOT from AutoCAD I would recommend to use the AutoCAD build in device for PDF-creating, no need to use external applications.

  • Start command _PLOT
  • Select e.g. "AutoCAD PDF (General Documentation).pc3"

In most cases this works well!

 

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Anonymous
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I understand.  Sorry about that.

 

And yes I'm using that exact method to create my PDF, its just that when I open the PDF in Bluebeam it looks fine, but when I open it in Adobe Acrobat it looks like the picture I  sent in my first message.

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Alfred.NESWADBA
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Hi,

 

>> using that exact method to create my PDF

Thank you for confirmation.

So your question is not about AutoCAD, it's about Adobe Viewer and Bluebeam Viewer ... which are not handled here. In this case please follow the advice from @pendean and ask in the forum or the support of these 2 products.

 

What you can do too to get more close to the source of this issue ... open this PDF in other viewers too, like PDFXChange or even in your browsers (most can display the PDF without any plugin. Comparing the output might help to find the product which is different to the others.

 

We might help you with AutoCAD plotting, e.g. to make sure you are using TTF-fonts (not OTF), using "usual TTF" (not any private fonts which are not allowed to be distributed) so you can assume that the operating system used to open/view the PDF already knows this font ... or inside the PDF-Options in the Plot-dialog verify that fonts are embedded in PDF.

 

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pendean
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>>>...but when I open it in Adobe Acrobat it looks like the picture I  sent in my first message...<<<
That's a display setting in your viewer: experiment there, here are my settings in Acrobat's Preferences

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Nope, you cannot control what others see in their Adobe Acrobat viewers when looking at your shx text in your PDF, you either tell them to change settings as well or try a different make PF viewer or you give up SHX fonts for TTF fonts. Sorry, that is all there is to it, you cannot control another app's settings from a PDF created in AutoCAD.

 

Check Adobe's Support Forums for more details and options, here is the link https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/bd-p/acrobat?page=1&sort=latest_replies&filter=all

 

HTH

Anonymous
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Thank you both.

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Flynn153
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Go to Adobe Preferences>Page Display and uncheck " Smooth Line Art"  this is only for an issue when viewing.  The output of the pdfs are most likely fine depending on the origination of work and other settings.

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JamesMaeding
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@pendean 

Good advice there, I never noticed those settings.

Same with @Alfred.NESWADBA , embed the fonts.

 

This "viewer flavor affects the on-screen look of pdfs" is something I've struggled with for years.

Then you have the plotting of pdfs on different plotters.

For plansets, we convert pdf to tiff using acroplot pdf converter, then all plotters plot the same as its already rasterized.

Can't fix the on screen viewing though.


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