First time posting, apologies in advance if I'm doing this wrong,
I'm having an issue in AutoCAD where I go to plot a finished sheet set and everything appears fine in the preview (S003_Error_1) but when I look at the printed product there's some random errors with the text and some features (S003_Error2). It looks like half the letters in the text changed to gray randomly. I went through several different plot styles and plotters but all with the same result.
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Would you be able to attach the drawing (or a representative sample of it) here for others to look at? What version of AutoCAD are you running? Enter ABOUT at the command line to see the exact version with any patches installed.
Hi, @Anonymous
A few questions for clarification:
As with most troubleshooting, it's a process of nailing down a pattern (i.e. "when I do this and this, it happens.") and unfortunately that can take time to determine.
Hope this helps.
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Chris Lindner
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I'll keep throwing my head against it and try to make it work.
Thanks again for taking the time to help, I really appreciate it.
How are you plotting the sheet set? If Publishing or from Sheet Set Manager the page setup is not always what you set on the layout tab page setup.
If plotting to a PDF, what if you zoom in on the text in Acrobat? Is it still grey? What does a paper plot look like?
What font are you plotting?
You mentioned colors. If you're using a color based plot style, the color typically determines grayscale and line width plotted. But TTF fonts plot as they will, color doesn't affect them.
Would you be able to attach the drawing (or a representative sample of it) here for others to look at? You don't need to share the full .dwg file. Just make a copy of the file and delete everything but the problematic text in the area you've shared in your screen shots.
I would also sign into your Autodesk Account and download the latest patch in case the issue has been fixed. For 2021, I think it's 2021.1.1.
So I found out it was actually an issue with the text style, had to use foxit drivers to print them properly. I guess the text style we were using was old and didn't render properly in Adobe Acrobat
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