text comes out blurred when outputting to pdf

[Nagaraj]

Hi Experts,

 

I am printing to PDF the Autocad drawing which has blocks with text. the resulting pdf shows few text readable and others comes out in blurred.

 

I made the line weight using LWEIGHT command to .005mm

using style I made the text width to .01

 

still i am getting the same issue please help.

PDF printer used is SCANSOFT pdf writer

Plot style : Monochrome

DPI: 600

 

Any suggestion is appreciated?

[BlackBox]

Congrats on your first post, and welcome to the forums!

 

I wouldn't consider myself to be an 'expert', but I do print to PDF often. I did some quick checks for my setup, and our CTB colors for text are 0.07, 0.18, 0.28, and 0.39 respectively (11x17 plans, heavier for 24x36), and only require 300dpi for prints.

 

 

We use the DeskPDF driver for printing AutoCAD > PDF. Within your PC3, you might try checking to see if you have any TrueType options:

• Page Setup Manager > Named Page Setup > Printer Properties > Custom Properties > Advanced > Document Options > PostScript Options
  

Interestingly though, we do use the ScanSoft PDF Create! driver (not sure if this is the same as yours?) for printing from DWF > PDF, for our older versions of AutoCAD.

 

Hope this helps!

[Dana W]

Hi Experts,

 

I am printing to PDF the Autocad drawing which has blocks with text. the resulting pdf shows few text readable and others comes out in blurred.

 

I made the line weight using LWEIGHT command to .005mm

using style I made the text width to .01

 

still i am getting the same issue please help.

PDF printer used is SCANSOFT pdf writer

Plot style : Monochrome

DPI: 600

 

Any suggestion is appreciated?

 

There were some issues with AutoCAD plotting to pdf as of the 2009 version. I am not sure they were fixed in the 2010 either.

 

I had the same issues with my 2009 LT. I downloaded Autodesk TrueView from their website. It is free. Just open the drawing in TrueView and plot as if it were in AutoCAD. There are no intermediate software apps to deal with either. Problems solved. An added benefit is that the resulting document file can be as much as 80% smaller in byte count than AutoCAD's pdf output. TrueView doesn't stuff all the useless overhead data into the pdf doc that AutoCAD does. I have seen size drop from 1.2 meg to 380 or so kb's for the same drawing.

[BlackBox]

There were some issues with AutoCAD plotting to pdf as of the 2009 version.

 

 

FYI - This was fixed with software update 2 or 3 (we got both at once). We too had major issues at first, then the update came out and all went well.

 

Also, great point in mentioning file size, Dana!

 

Using the process I described above (i.e., not using the AutoCAD PDF driver), a single PDF sheet is around 68 KB (I checked a random project file recently submitted), and everything is done in one-step, using one-application, via the ._publish command (and a named page setup of course!).

[Dana W]

FYI - This was fixed with software update 2 or 3 (we got both at once). We too had major issues at first, then the update came out and all went well.

 

Also, great point in mentioning file size, Dana!

 

Using the process I described above (i.e., not using the AutoCAD PDF driver), a single PDF sheet is around 68 KB (I checked a random project file recently submitted), and everything is done in one-step, using one-application, via the ._publish command (and a named page setup of course!).

 

Hmmmmmmmmm..... Me gots the updates. Me gots still the issues (maybe. Just have not tried it.) Wow, it prints a little better, still a grayed out block of mtext in paperspace and the drawing is still 1.2 meg, but its getting there. I take the position that, if the pdf is not intended to be "Re-converted" to a dwg, why bother with the humongous file size?