I have created a logo which is included in all our drawings. The text part of the logo has been created by exploding a text object and hattched the remaining polylines. In in the model view all looks fine but when I print the drawing to PDF some gray lines appear over the text. If I plot the PDF to paper everything looks good, it is only the electronic versions that suffers from this problem. I need the electronic versions to hand out to our costumers so paper is not an option here and the print must look professional.
I have tried the following pdf generators, all with the same result:
Adobe
Autodesks built in DWG to PDF
Bullzip
Cute
I have viewer the result in both Adobe Acrobat 10 and Foxit reader. Both show similar problems. I can not find any solution to this problem. Can anybody help me out here?
I have attached two screenshots. One from the printed PDF and one from autocad model space.
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2020 and still a problem with autocad that began when cad was a command prompt only program. maybe in another 20yrs they will make an appropriate PDF driver in cooperation with Adobe but don't hold your breath. Cadzation makes better pdf's anyways, if only it'd be a direct option in the sheet set manager publish to pdf so we could abandon this cheap half baked pdf maker that autodesk offers.
I changed the pdf options to not smooth the line art and I thought it fixed my problem, but it did not.
My solution was to put a hatch over a hatch. Solid hatch behind a lined hatch at a 90 degree angle. My thought was that if it makes hatches in triangles lets just add more triangles... worked for me.
I have a similar problem. PDFs that are xrefed into Civil 3d, the shading/solids/hatching show up as lines when plotting to pdf only sometimes. I'm using Foxit Reader. These lines do not show up in Civil 3D plot preview.
Thanks for responding. You don't see the lines criss/crossing over the shading in the pavement area left of Station 103+00 and across the boxes with text in it? I did not draw those lines.
Thank you
Thanks for your help but I cant see PREFERENCES under EDIT in Acrobat ????
@nick.brazier See the image below or hold down CTRL+K
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@Greg-Steele wrote:
I'm using Foxit not Adobe Acrobat but thanks for trying.
Is HELP broken in that FOXIT program? Probably not
At the command line type GFXDX12 and change the value to 0, is that better?
See the explanation for the variable in the link below
How to use a previous DirectX version in AutoCAD Products (autodesk.com)
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GFXDX12 is not a command in CIVIL 3D 2022. And btw the lines only show when you plot to a pdf. They are not visible in CAD itself.
@Hammer.john.j wrote:
.. problem is the adobe.pc3 which is at best not good...
That is a PC3 file unique to each user more often than not, created by a migration from an older AutoCAD year version, or a 3rd party add-on.
Never EVER use it if you start seeing issues with it. AutoCAD and C3D only come bundled with these choices from Autodesk
Or create a "fresh" PC3 file like this
Bluebeam is a great product, but not everyone wants to buy into it. If it works for you, that's great. it is sadly not a solution to anyone else that does not have it or wish to purchase it.
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