wipeout in the PDF

Hi all

When I convert the DWG to PDF and I used the wipeout in the drawing it this area is converts as black and dark (not clear)

I used AutoCAD 2010 and adobe acrobat 8

Anyone have any idea about this problem

Hi,

It seemed that that the problem could be related to settings with the pdf driver. Try another pdf driver and see if the problem persist. Recently I used extensive wipeout in blocks in 3d modelling and the pdf file went crazy and it took eternity to print the pdf.

You could check in the preview wrt to other printer driver that you have. If its only exist wrt to the pdf driver, try using another one that free on the web. You will know immediately if its a driver-specific problem. You can also check with the text background mask if the problem is recurrent there also. Don't forget to check "Use drawing background color".

Should you have an answer to this, please let me know.

Regards,

Nicolas.

DO NOT USE the AutoCAD color "white" (index color 7) for your wipeouts. It reverts to dark or light, oposite your background. Use index color 255.

good one DANA W

Thanks a lot , have a nice day

Thank you Dana. Hopefully you were there to simplify things. This is very helpful to print white on black instead of the regular black on white. I think that the next occasion I need to print something white on black will be most welcomed. I had some difficulty finding color 255 as it is almost invisible in the color dialog box but it is there, next to color 254.

Thank you Dana. Hopefully you were there to simplify things. This is very helpful to print white on black instead of the regular black on white. I think that the next occasion I need to print something white on black will be most welcomed. I had some difficulty finding color 255 as it is almost invisible in the color dialog box but it is there, next to color 254.

You are welcomed. You can just type 255 into the Color box also.

The color "white" is some sort of que for AutoCAD to run code that inverts the 'color white' whenever the background changes from light to dark. It was born in the monochrome days. Without it, you would have to use the same color background in modelspace and paperspace.

I always use black background in modelspace, and white background in paperspace. I normally use 'white' only for my crosshairs/cursor and colors for everything else if I am creating color plots. If I am creating a monochrome drawing, I simply draw everything in 'white' and plot with the default monochrome ctb.