Inserted PDF Viewing Issue

[Anonymous]

I am having an issue with my inserted PDFs.  I typically insert PDFs into model space and when I zoom in/out it changes the way the PDF looks. Sometimes when zoomed out it will look out of wack like like a strecthed image and then when I start zooming in on it it pops into normal scale.  This is making it hard to work with and it will plot this way too.

Any suggestions?

[pendean]

LT version? Windows version? It would appear your video card is not capable and you need to tone down AutoCAD if possible.

[Victoria.Studley]

Hi @Anonymous,

Thank you for posting your question here. If you post more details about your system and the issue, as @pendean suggested, we'll be better able to assist you.

Could you post an NFO file and Screencast of the behavior to start with?

[jlagerqu]

I seem to have a similar issue. I am running LT 2018 under W7 64 bit Pro, Dell T3500, Quatro FX 1800 

I do a fair amount of importing on PDFs, and generally things work as expected. In this case I am having one of four PDFs that are imported into the drawing appear to change size as I zoom in and out in model space. The two attached screen shots show this. There are two PDFs that overlap. When I zoom out you can see that the on on the right seems to change to a larger size. I have seen this a few times before as well.

Checking the properties of the PDF it seems to be the same as the others. Doing a regen does not reset it.

I have hardware acceleration off and smooth line display off (which seems backwards as that is what it takes to make the lines crisp on the screen).

This is more of a "hm, that's odd" than a problem. As long as I can get a clean trace life is good.

Thanks,

Jon

[pendean]

That happens occasionally with OLE objects: did you use INSERTOBJ command to bring in the PDFs? or a copy/paste from the camera tool inside your PDF Viewer?

[jlagerqu]

Thanks Dean,

I typically insert PDFs as an x-reference. Mostly through the x-reference  window, and occasionally by doing an Insert/PDF underlay. I have not really done any OLE object stuff directly. 

Jon

[pendean]

I've not run across this problem, or reports of it, from the reference method of attaching PDFs.

Any chance you can etransmit the file and pdfs to post here? In theory if it happens to you it should happen here for me, right?

[jlagerqu · Accepted solution]

Thanks Dean,

I would be happy to send the file, however today when I open it everything is behaving. Something about closing the file, and LT, seems to have settled things down. I have no idea what that would be, but I will remember that for the next time.

Jon

[pendean]

Next time it happens, just restart Windows,m it's likely just a video card hiccup.
Thanks for sharing.