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Katers
15th Sep 2007, 07:23 pm
OK, This will sound long winded, but my problem is as follows:
I use 2007. I have printed it to a pdf. I open the pages using Acrobat 7 Professional. When I go to print the fonts for all the notation that I did in cad is coming out with inconsistent weights. I have checked the file in cad and the font size are all the same to match the viewport requirements. It seems to pingpong at random.I have tried adjusting the line weight in cad and had no improvement. Is this a Acrobat problem, or a cad problem?
Katers
15th Sep 2007, 10:45 pm
OK, I have looked it up at it has to do with a stroking function in CAD. Does anyone know how to turn off the stroking function on text in CAD. Not turn it white, not turn it to 0.00MM because it still strokes the letters. I am sure that someone smarter than me can find the pop up menu for this.
StykFacE
16th Sep 2007, 06:57 am
I think it might have something to do with your Join style in your CTB file. Go to your CTB file that you're plotting with and change it to Miter, or Butt, or Rounded and see if this helps the PDF plot. Are you familiar with this? if not let me know and I'll go in further detail on how to fix this. :)
Katers
17th Sep 2007, 06:57 pm
I would love some further detail please. I am not sure I am being clear. I know how autocad renders letters is filling with lines, rather than doing it with vertors like illustrator. When I open the pdf I can see when I go in really closely that the letters are stroked. When I open the file in illustrator I can delete then and clean it up that way. I just seems to me to be very silly to have to do this. Is it possible that most people don't notice?
StykFacE
17th Sep 2007, 08:44 pm
if it's a *.SHX font then it will have lines/strokes to the font... if it's a full type font. This is just one of those things you'll have to either deal with, or set a thicker lineweight.

Also, the whole "Plot to PDF" options in AutoCAD aren't perfect yet, there are many things that do not come out great on the PDF itself, but they all still plot good. As long as the PDF plots are looking okay, then there should be nothing to worry about. :)