2006 Sp 4.0 PDF bug (?)

I just "upgraded" to 4.0 to get the fix for a hole note bug and now the
Save As PDF function puts a box around embedded Word documents. The
VAR doesn't know a workaround. Does anyone else know, or am I stuck
wasting more time rolling back to 2.0?

Thanks
Eric

 

If it is that critical that you cannot have the border around it -- tell
your var to turn it in to solidworks. They should definitely be able to get
an SPR on it if functionality is now missing. If you can show that in sp2.0
(when solidworks used bluebeam instead of adobe for pdf) that there is no
border & there is now, there is no question that this can be fixed - as
users have lost functionality.

On the other hand regarding a workaround (until sw fixes it) - Now that the
note command in solidworks is so robust (2006) why use a word doc at all?
You can create item numbers, fractions, bold portions of the text, underline
other portions, use different fonts, ect...

But if you do have a good reason for the word doc -- you can (I have tested
this & it works for me on sp 3.4):
1. draw a rectangle (sketch entities)around the word doc
2. change the thickness of all 4 lines to be really thick (make sure the
lines overlap the OLE border)
3. change the color of all 4 lines to white.
3. right click on the word doc OLE object & choose "SEND TO BACK"
4. create PDF.

Another option -- use a free pdf printer (like www.cutepdf.com) & print the
pdf -- During print the border does not show up

Hope this helps
Steve T.

 

Thanks, this works. I will do this until they fix the bug (if they
ever fix it). We've got hundreds if not thousands of drawings to do
this on...

Eric