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Lines are distorted/mangled when printing to PDF

Em_J
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Lines are distorted/mangled when printing to PDF

Em_J
Explorer
Explorer

Hi All, 

I am trying to print my drawing to a PDF using the following settings:

emily_jessamy_0-1713443009998.png

 

However, when I view the PDF and zoom in to see certain elements of the drawing, the lines/small detail are completely distorted and mangled (See below as to how it looks in the paper space vs how it plots.) I am unsure if this is to be expected when zooming in on a PDF of a drawing with so much detail from a large scale (1:3500) or if this can be rectified by enabling/disabling certain settings? When I print the PDF at a much smaller scale (1:750), the quality of the detail is unaltered. However, for the purposes of this drawing I need it at a large scale. 

 

Em_J_0-1713446689926.png Paper Space

Em_J_1-1713446715261.png Plotted PDF

 

I really appreciate any help/advice I can get! Thank you in advance! 

 

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h_s_walker
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Do you get the same problems if you use the printer highlighted in the image below?

hwalker_1-1713449003189.png

 

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pendean
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Dumb question(s): just like you, we all plot from AutoCAD to PDF or printer/plotters at all sorts of scales all ay long. Is this a unique issue with this one file? Or does this now happen to ALL of your files? Even if you copy/paste this file's content into a blank new DWG and try it again?

Can you share your DWG here please: use ETRANSMIT command to bundle everything we over here might need to try and reproduce your issue.
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Em_J
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I played around with these options and it improved significantly, thank you! I'm so used to using the same printer options with no issue, that I didn't think to vary this option! 

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Em_J
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The above suggestion seemed to do the trick, thank you though for responding! Appreciate it! 

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