PDF Plotting problems

Hi all, hope this is the right place to ask. Here goes, I have been using images as backgrounds on drawings (jpeg, tiff, sid files). We recently upgraded to ACAD 2010 & since the upgrade I have been having problems plotting my drawings to pdf (using dwg to pdf, cutepdf, pdfredirect). The image either does not plot at all or it comes out all wrong.

Anybody have any idees what could be wrong or if it could be a bug in 2010?

PLEASE HELP!!

I recently had the same problem when plotting drawings containing .tiff images. (Using Autocad Wiseimage).

The problem turned out to be the printer driver.

The standard driver installed for our networked Toshiba printer was a postcript PSL3 driver.

When I was having problems I changed this through the control panel to use a PCL6 driver and it then plotted the images no problem.

I have tried plotting with 3 different plotters & other people in my company are having the same problems.

Will try to see if it is driver issues.

I have tried plotting with 3 different plotters & other people in my company are having the same problems.

 

Will try to see if it is driver issues.

***Sometime people want to put a bitmap (an image, a text document or an Excel spreadsheet) in the middle of their drawing or next to their CAD diagram.

These documents are linked to the CAD drawing: on the screen, they look like one.

In that case, they are OLE objects.

OLE = Object Linking and Embedding.

Many CAD - even AutoCAD - have/had a lot of problems in printing mixed documents (OLE objects+vectors), as bitmaps and vectors use different languages.

This is because the AutoCAD print driver can only print the AutoCAD diagram - it cannot print the Excel spreadsheet because it does not work /worked with Excel.

Do you experience this problem with all mixed files?

If yes, you need a printer driver that can interpret and print OLE objects from inside CAD files.

You'll find it by us.

The only reason I do not think that is the problem is that it work fine before ACAD 2010 & I must also add we did recive new .sid images that we are using.

Any suggestions of pdf printer I can try? (other than cutepdf, pdfredirect and Primopdf)

The only reason I do not think that is the problem is that it work fine before ACAD 2010 & I must also add we did recive new .sid images that we are using.

 

Any suggestions of pdf printer I can try? (other than cutepdf, pdfredirect and Primopdf)

***before ACAD 2010!

From our webpages:

"Very often, with no apparent reason, you may obtain different, contrastingresults;

Causes of this usually are:

• the same CAD Program version sending files to different printer models;
  
• different versions of CAD program sending files to the same printer;
  
• the same CAD program version, the same printer model but different Windows version"

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"Very often, with no apparent reason, you may obtain different, contrastingresults;

Causes of this usually are:

• the same CAD Program version sending files to different printer models;
  
• different versions of CAD program sending files to the same printer;
  
• the same CAD program version, the same printer model but different Windows version"

I see that the drivers can be an issue but why would all the printer I have tryed printing to (A0 sheet with .sid images xrefed into dwg and also any layout ontop of the images) still not print. I got cutepdf to start printing yesterday and am still waiting for the plot. It is still running. Will let you know if it actually plotts the file in the end.