Create PDF with High Quality resolution without rasterizingtext/dimensions/lineart

When I create PDF's from my SW drawings often they will be included in
marketing materials where the quality and resolution are important.
These often contain both black and white and color shaded views.

I can create high resolution PDF's using "High Quality" setting in
Page Setup. However doing so converts all lines/text/dimensions to
raster(pixelated) format.

If I leave "High Quality" unchecked the dimensions/ lines and text are
preserved in their vector format. Which is nice because the text is
searchable, it has infinite resolution, and it can be edited in
Acrobat Pro. However the resolution of the shaded views becomes poor.

If I use "Save As..." and save as a PDF using the "High Quality" in
the PDF Export settings the quality is slightly better and the vector
objects are preserved but the resolution is still to low for my needs.

I've tried messing with all the print settings in the PDF printer and
all tried saving to PDF, but at the end I seem to be stuck with the
two options, low resolution or fully rasterized.

 

You're probably trying to do too much at once. Doubtful that
marketing wants entire engineering drawing w/ dims, borders, and all.

Instead, just create blank scratch drawings and export a single view
at a time to PDF.

 

When you save drawing as tif you can have huge resolution. Can you use
tif's?

 

PDF is the wrong format to be providing to Marketing. You should be
providing .dwg. This is much easier for them to handle as it can be
imported painlessly into Illustrator or similar applications. Then
the issue of what font to use is up to them, as it should be for
marketing material.

Matt Lorono
http://sw.fcsuper.com
http://www.fcsuper.com/swblog

 

Matt makes a good point. Don't get sucked into doing too much of
marketing's work for them.