grasshopper Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 I have a few drawings that take forever to plot to PDF, the size of the files I make are on the average 80-100MB and they plot to PDF in just a few seconds but I have a set of files that I have had to do revisions on one occasion and since then they've been taking 1/2 - 1 hour to plot and these average about 70MB.... anyone got ideas. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritz Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 That's gotta be your file size. My .dwgs are rarely higher than 1 or 2mb, Do you maybe have some really big raster image references? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grasshopper Posted October 14, 2008 Author Share Posted October 14, 2008 That's gotta be your file size. My .dwgs are rarely higher than 1 or 2mb, Do you maybe have some really big raster image references? hmmm maybe but still, it doesn't make sense why some files of the nearly the same size some smaller some bigger would plot faster than files of the like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOB'27T Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 It takes longer to process an image versus just a line drawing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritz Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Do the files the plot faster have less or no raster images? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grasshopper Posted October 17, 2008 Author Share Posted October 17, 2008 none of the files have images in them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jammie Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Having encountered a similar problem, I turned off background plotting and it did the trick If you want to enable or disable plotting or publishing "on the background" (without interrupting your work), you can use the command option (checkbox) or the BACKGROUNDPLOT variable (value 0 switches off both background plotting and publishing). Hope this helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grasshopper Posted October 21, 2008 Author Share Posted October 21, 2008 Having encountered a similar problem, I turned off background plotting and it did the trick If you want to enable or disable plotting or publishing "on the background" (without interrupting your work), you can use the command option (checkbox) or the BACKGROUNDPLOT variable (value 0 switches off both background plotting and publishing). Hope this helps dang... that wasn't it... any other suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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