Publish to pdf in color instead of ctb

[enemigoman]

Hello:

 

I am having the following problem in one of the pc's in my company: Whenever we publish to PDF, the drawings comes out in color with an error message that says "Incompatible or missing plot style".

 

The plot style (*.ctb file) is correctly installed. It also can't be incompatible because the rest of the office, with the exact same installed software, uses it without a problem.

 

The funny thing is that when one plots to pdf (not publish), the drawing comes out fine. Funnier than that is that when I modify the publish options to publish to plotter named in page setup (which is the plot-to-pdf that worked before), it will have the same "incompatible" crap-of-a-problem and print in color.

 

Finally, I tried to publish the exact same files with the exact same ctb file from another computer and there is no problem.

 

The problem happens with both AutoCAD 2012 and AutoCAD 2013

 

My first instinct is to re-install AutoCAD, but perhaps you guys have and ace on your sleeve, as usual...

[rkent]

The pagesetup could be calling a stb file or a ctb that has been deleted. When you plot you are selecting a ctb and plotter which circumvents the pagesetup.

 

So edit the pagesetup and make sure the correct ctb is being specified, make sure it is asking for ctb and not a stb as well.

[RobDraw]

"missing plot style"

 

In the plot dialog box at the upper right corner, does it say that the *.ctb is missing? If so, check the pathing for plot styles in options.

[enemigoman]

Thank you rkent and RobDraw:

 

Unfortunatedly, the page setup has the correct ctb set and it is not missing. We even re-installed it, just in case. To be clear, the ctb's are displaying and not the stb's.

 

Regards,

[RobDraw]

Before doing a repair of your installation, double check to make sure all the settings are the same;

Make sure all publish settings are exactly the same.

Make sure all plotting pathings are the same.

Make sure the .ctb is the same.

[Pablo Ferral]

& Make sure the user has access to the file location of the .CTB file...