Mtext and Polylines Won't Plot

[bachrock]

You didn't say if they were all in MS or PS.

Are the mtext objects in PS?

Are the leader in PS?

If the plotting and non-plotting objects are in the same place, PS for instance, then the overwrite shouldn't matter. When testing window a small area and use a small paper size for testing.

Everything is drawn in MS. I have a viewport in PS which is where I plot from. I'll try printing to an 8.5" x 11". I was thinking this wasn't a problem when printing smaller and so therefor it must be a problem related to the plotter. I'll verify.

[Dadgad]

Are the MTEXT annotative perhaps?

[rkent]

Everything is drawn in MS. I have a viewport in PS which is where I plot from. I'll try printing to an 8.5" x 11". I was thinking this wasn't a problem when printing smaller and so therefor it must be a problem related to the plotter. I'll verify.

Is this a case of the color of objects being white on screen but are actually 255,255,255 or some such, so they actually plot white rather than plotting black on paper even though they appear white on screen. Verify that they are color 7 rather than something that looks white on screen.

[Dadgad]

Good thought rkent.

[rickh]

what print driver are you selecting? DWG to PDF? If you do use this one, will they show up on the pdf?

[bachrock]

Are the MTEXT annotative perhaps?

They're not.

[bachrock]

Is this a case of the color of objects being white on screen but are actually 255,255,255 or some such, so they actually plot white rather than plotting black on paper even though they appear white on screen. Verify that they are color 7 rather than something that looks white on screen.

They were color 255 and I changed them to color 7. I actually want them to plot white as they'll stand out from the background image better that way. But right now I just want them to plot at all.

[bachrock]

what print driver are you selecting? DWG to PDF? If you do use this one, will they show up on the pdf?

To plot large posters I use a HP1055 printer.

When I used DWG to PDF everything shows up except the background image which isn't there at all. I get a white background so I can't know about the white text.

[ReMark]

Any chance you could post a small sample drawing (DWG file not an image) exhibiting this unusual behavior?

[rickh]

That's interesting. I print images like aerials using the DWG to PDF with no issues. But in any case, if you changed the text to color 7 already, it would've shown up as black, so I'm thinking it still doesn't plot with this driver.

Can you maybe post the drawing, or portion of it so others can test? -edit- ReMark beat me to it...