Rudbeckia Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Hi Folks What would cause the attached PDF to plot this way? File is a 2013 Autocad LT survey file from an engineer. I tried changing line weights, colors, etc Any guesses? Its about to drive me insane PDFTEST.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Don't know - Have you tried using cutePDF? It may solve it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudbeckia Posted May 24, 2012 Author Share Posted May 24, 2012 yes its not that, i think it might have something to do with a missing cbt file, but not sure how to plot without that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 I suppose you tried Monochrome.ctb? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Can you post the actual file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudbeckia Posted May 24, 2012 Author Share Posted May 24, 2012 dont think so........when I go to plot, the cbt file is missing that was used, could that be the problem? I tried the command convertpstyle but i dont think I did it correctly....thanks for trying to help! I have tried plotting in grayscale, monochrome but it still plots in color regardless Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Sounds like this is an image in the drawing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudbeckia Posted May 24, 2012 Author Share Posted May 24, 2012 interesting.....it seems not like an image, it has layers lines etc i can click on in model space just like a regular cad file......can an image have that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudbeckia Posted May 24, 2012 Author Share Posted May 24, 2012 i put the file in illustrator and , lines are not fuzzy at all when made a PDF from illustator.....i think it has to be something with the plotstyle missing in cad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Select it and then Properties, what is it called? I really do not see how a missing plot style could cause this, just substitute another ctb and adjust settings to suite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudbeckia Posted May 24, 2012 Author Share Posted May 24, 2012 sorry select what?.....maybe its not the plot style, just thought it was something with the plotting since i can open the DWG in illustrator, save to PDF and its not fuzzy at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackfish Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 That could be a dpi resolution of pdf. You can change it during plotting in Properties... -> Device and Document Settings -> Graphics. Probably you have set something lower than 300 dpi. Just check it in AutoCAD, when you are plotting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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