DougDM Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 I always print to Adobe Acrobat DC virtual printer. Today I got an email from my engineer and said he couldn't read the dims or text on a few sheets of the set sent to him. Couple pages aren't printing as expected. See attached. They are fine in CA....As you can see the Dims and Text are all screwed up. Updated drivers etc. etc.. Acrobat is up to date. CA is up to date. It's just a couple pages this is happening to in an entire 12 page set. The floor plan pages. Any insight or know of a fix is appreciated. Thank and stay well, Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommy1 Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Try using Chief PDF printer and see if that helps. I have been using it exclusively since I got this new laptop with no problems. Before, I was using Cute PDF. When I upload a pdf to an email, I always open it from the email so I know it's okay before I hit "send". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 The only problem with Chief pdf is the large file size it creates. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DzinEye Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 To reduce file size.. You might try printing with Chief pdf printer, then opening that PDF and printing that with your Acrobat printer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougDM Posted June 10, 2020 Author Share Posted June 10, 2020 Thanks all. I'll try it. I just don't understand why after using Acrobat/DC for all my Cad printing for as long as I can remember with no issues, and one page it won't print correctly. Has to be the way it's reading the files during conversion. Oh well, I'll give Chief PDF a try, after all it's one page. Thanks again and stay well. Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwideziner Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 I have had trouble printing to Adobe in the past, but only on odd layouts, so never got to the bottom of it. put it down to some sort of discrepancy between the 2 programs. I now use Foxit and don't seem to be having any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougDM Posted June 11, 2020 Author Share Posted June 11, 2020 Well thank you everyone, I used CA to PDF for that one page, all else I used Acrobat DC. We're good for now just to get the job out the door. If I figure out why just one page wasn't printing correctly, I'll post the reason/cause.. Thanks and stay safe, Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 Perhaps a Font issue ? same Font used on all Pages? I use BullZip Free PDF Printer to keep file size down for emailing , but Chief's PDF Printer sometimes seems to make a "Nicer looking" PDF https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00006/message-the-following-fonts-are-not-available-on-this-system.html M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopsaw Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 7 hours ago, Kbird1 said: Perhaps a Font issue ? I was thinking the same. Pretty sure Chief embeds fonts by default while I think it is an option in Acrobat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougDM Posted June 12, 2020 Author Share Posted June 12, 2020 I would think if it were a font issue, it would screw up on every page. Of the 12 page set, it's one page. BTW, this particular model was done in version X11, I started it with X11 so I didn't bring it into X12. Which I will just for S&G once the project is finalized. Or maybe just backup entire plan, open with X12 and see if it messes with that one page. Process of elimination to a problem however takes time. Is it worth it for something I've have never encountered since Ver 9. Hummm. If it continues, then perhaps worth the effort. For now we're good to go with the use of CA to PDF for that single page. Thanks again all, stay safe and healthy. Doug 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DianaK Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Just as general comment on all this, I have been using Bullzip and most of the sheets turn out fine but exterior elevations are faint & have a lot of ghosting every time. I print Vector with no color & no shadows but still not good,.. some lines do not even show up in actual hard copy. Going to try CA printer, maybe give Foxit a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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