Raster Printing .Dwg Text and Dimension Cut Off

[Andrei-Pirlea]

Hey Everyone,

First post on here so please let me know if something doesn't show correctly.

The problem:

When printing a sheet as Raster (Or exporting image as Raster) the text for the .dwgs gets cut off at random intervals both vertically and horizontally. It only affects some text both standalone and as part of dimension suffix, for example the 30mm bench top text note should be cut like the notes above yet it isn't?

Solutions I have tried: 

Vector Printing (works but I need raster since it will get exported as an image and the only option is raster)

Changing background of the text in Autocad. Tried multiple variations but none worked.

Changed EPDFSHX to 0 in Autocad (Suggested on another forum).

Changing extents of text notes in case they were obscuring adjacent notes.

Can't change the .dwg to current view only as I need the drawing to be 3D (Another forum suggestion).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Andrei

Red line dictates where the cut happens, Green is the text that is being cut off.

[Anonymous]

Are there any masking regions?  They may have invisible borders.

[Andrei-Pirlea]

Thanks for your response Tim!

There are no masking regions on these. Just text on a elevation view looking at a kitchen family, which is then exported to Autocad, cleaned out a bit to just leave the text, and then re-imported into the family.

The image I attached in the original post is showing the printed/exported elevation view of the kitchen with the cleaned out Autocad file nested inside.

Note: If I print in vector it shows fine, seems to just be raster where the issue comes up.

Cheers,

Andrei

[Anonymous]

Does this happen with any printer? It could be an outdated printer driver.  If so, try printing to PDF first.

Try and link the same DWG into a new project and see if you replicate the issue there.  It may help to narrow down the problem.

[ryley.g.h]

It seems to happen every location text corsses one of those red lines (even on spots you have not highlighted), what are the red lines?

[ryley.g.h]

Can you vector plot to PDF, then in Adobe PDF go: File-> export to... -> Img -> save as Jpeg?

[Andrei-Pirlea]

Hey Ryley,

The red lines are just indications of where it happens. I have attached a version without the lines.

Thanks!

[Andrei-Pirlea]

Hi again,

Good suggestion and it does fix the problem but only as a workaround, ideally the extra step to export from Adobe would be removed since this printing happens very often.

The aim is that it gets exported directly from Revit to a .tiff file, but the problem started from only being able to print .tiff's as raster. At this stage any raster format would be fine as long as the quality is fine and the text works.

Cheers!

[ryley.g.h]

You can send a .pdf that is 100% raster right from Revit (if that meets you requirments). Under print setup change Hidden Line Views to Raster Processing.

[Andrei-Pirlea]

Unfortunately that doesnt work either, seems like any raster print whether an export as image or via the printer seems to bring this issue up.

Another odd thing I've found is that changing the dpi/quality of the export changes the spacing interval of the cutoff lines (red lines of the original post). Hopefully the next 2 images somewhat explain this. 

At 600 dpi the spacing of the blanking is about 1040mm in Revit while at 300 dpi it changes to 1480mm. So lowering the quality spaces the issue out.

 

[ryley.g.h]

Try this. The issue may be the .Tiff, and the file size being too large.

[Andrei-Pirlea]

Hey Tim, 

Yes it seems to, I have tried both Adobe PDF and Microsoft Print to PDF (only printers I can use) and both have the same issue when printing as raster.

Also I tried bringing the .dwg into another project and print it from there but the issue was still there, so it seems it has nothing to do with nesting the .dwg into a family but rather how the printers/exporters deal with .dwg text when printed in raster. I also tried changing the font and size of the text with no success.

Thanks!

[Andrei-Pirlea]

I just went through different varieties of Formats in the Export Image screen (All JPEG options, PNG and TIFF using different image quality values and zoom percentage but all options have the problem somewhere. It does however move around, so the same text block isn't always cut in the same place. It seems to be very random when changing format type and quality setting.

But the are consistent, so TIFF at 600 dpi always cuts the same place, JPEG (smallest) at 300 DPI always cuts the same place etc.

Also file sizes seem reasonable, a PNG at 600 dpi results in 4mb and a tiff at 600 dpi results in 1mb.

[ryley.g.h]

If you batch plot PDF's into one package, the adobe export that I suggested can batch plot the images. Meaning, you can have adobe automatically convert 15 pdf's to images for you as long as they're all within one package. That's me all out of ideas, good luck!

[Andrei-Pirlea]

Hey Ryley,

That method is an acceptable workaround, especially since they can be done in bulk. A direct Revit fix would still be ideal but this works for now.

Thanks for your help!

[Anonymous]

I'm struggling with text clipping related to raster compression as well. Has anyone came up with a solution by any chance?