PDF Printing and 2005

I am using AutoCad 2005 and Adobe Acrobat 6.0.

I think I need to reload my Adobe PDF printer driver. Is is available for download from the autodesk website? Please tell me where I can find it. Why you ask?
WELL,
I am printing a layout 24x36 sheet to PDF. When I print preview the drawing, it looks complete. However, when it is printed and viewed in Adobe, the left side of the sheet is blank and only the right half printed. Any ideas?

I should also mention that I have a polygonal viewport versus a regular viewport, too. However all items (location in and out of the viewport) are not printing.

It prints fine from 2005 to a plotter.

Sorry about the double post.

 

We had trouble with polygonal viewports and PDF when the files were on the
large size. The plot file becomes enormous. I bet it'll work file if you
used a rectangular viewport in that layout.

download from the autodesk website? Please tell me where I can find it. Why
you ask?

drawing, it looks complete. However, when it is printed and viewed in Adobe,
the left side of the sheet is blank and only the right half printed. Any
ideas?

viewport, too. However all items (location in and out of the viewport) are
not printing.

 

You are right, it has to do with the polygon viewport. Does anyone know of a fix to this? Will this be in the next service pack?

 

If you want email me over your drawing and we'll test it on our AcroPlot
software. I haven't had problems doing basic polygonal viewports plus our
software supports lines merge and text masks that Adobe doesn't.

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Rodney McManamy
President
CADzation
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518 South Route 31 Suite 200
McHenry, IL 60050
www.cadzation.com
Providing Industrial Strength
PDF & DWF Solutions to the
Global CAD Marketplace.

of a fix to this? Will this be in the next service pack?

 

I have found that if you print at half size (18x12), the drawing will print correctly. Then, from Adobe, it is possible to print the drawing "scaled to page" up to the 36x24 size. I've noticed that the scale is just slightly off, but since we don't use PDF for anything other than reference purposes, it doesn't matter that much. Apparently, Adobe does not like the larger page sizes (i.e. 36x24), but can handle the half size sheet just fine. Good luck to EVERYONE who is having this problem and not getting support from Autodesk and Adobe.

 

You won't get it from Autodesk since they have the DWF format and from Adobe
the engineering market is maybe 10% of their worldwide market so I wouldn't
put my money there either. That is why there is at least 4 or 5 companies
like ours who specialize in high quality AutoCAD to PDF conversion to make
your jobs easier.

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Rodney McManamy
President
CADzation
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518 South Route 31 Suite 200
McHenry, IL 60050
www.cadzation.com
Providing Industrial Strength
PDF & DWF Solutions to the
Global CAD Marketplace.

print correctly. Then, from Adobe, it is possible to print the drawing
"scaled to page" up to the 36x24 size. I've noticed that the scale is just
slightly off, but since we don't use PDF for anything other than reference
purposes, it doesn't matter that much. Apparently, Adobe does not like the
larger page sizes (i.e. 36x24), but can handle the half size sheet just
fine. Good luck to EVERYONE who is having this problem and not getting
support from Autodesk and Adobe.

 

If this is an Adobe problem, why did it work fine in ACAD2002?

 

Could be because printing has changed somewhat in 2005 to allow printing of
shaded viewports. I'm not saying you're not going to get the Adobe stuff to
work in AutoCAD I'm just saying that there are companies out there who do a
far better job of it from AutoCAD. Take the Cadalyst Labs review that
tested ours again Adobe and with the Willhome.dwg sample drawing ours was 13
times smaller. Something like 124 KB versus 1.7 MB with Adobe's conversion.

--
Rodney McManamy
President
CADzation
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-------------------------
518 South Route 31 Suite 200
McHenry, IL 60050
www.cadzation.com
Providing Industrial Strength
PDF & DWF Solutions to the
Global CAD Marketplace.

 

I have found a shareware program PDF995 that works great. you just have to put up with some ads when you use it. www.pdf995.com I use it constantly

 

Yes, I have tried pdf995, too. I had used it to plot autocad files with multiple images attachment, polygon viewport, etc. I have not stumble into any problem with this shareware yet.