printing adobe pdf from solidworks

when I try to print to adobe pdf (only with press quality selected)
from a solidworks drawing I get this error message in
notepad...........

%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
%%[ Error: HollywoodHillsExpanded cannot be embedded because of
licensing restrictions.]%%
%%[ Font vendor (Macromedia) does not permit this font to be embedded
in PDF.]%%
%%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: show ]%%

Stack:
/T


%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%


.............I'm not even using the font, HollywoodHillsExpanded! Any
ideas on how I can stop this?

Thanks.

 

Do you have the "Download as SoftFont" option selected?

Are you sure HollywoodHillsExpanded is not set as a font for something
in you SW file? Check ALL font settings (including default fonts for
notes, dimension lines, section lines, EVERYTHING). Check print
headers and footers. If it's a drawing, examine the format carefully,
too.

 

Its ok... I just deleted the font from the computer. Thanks anyway.

I'm having trouble producing a high quality image/print from my drawing
though. Its not good enough quality just to print to my printer so I'm
trying out printing to adobe PDF. The quality is not good though even
though I have 'press quality' and 'convert draft quality views to high
quality' selected.

Do you have any ideas on how I can improve the quality?

Thanks.

 

The print quality is only bad when a drawing view is shaded, but not
with the 'hidden lines removed' setting. Can anything be done to change
this?

 

Go into your setting and improve your image settings. There are some
setting in "document properties" and I believe some in "system
properties" as well. Crank them up as high as they go to see if that
works, and then you can decrease them to help increase your performance
if you want.

 

Under "File --> Page Setup"... under "Resolution and Scale"... select
the "High Quality" checkbox.

SW is a bit quirky about printing shaded images. When no shaded images
are present in a drawing, views are printed to PDF with vector
entities, which makes for very clean views that have high resolution
and can be zoomed in on without loss of resolution. If a shaded view
is present, everything is printed with pixels and gets hazy.

 

i've figured out how to do it... print to adobe pdf, select 'press
quality' and 'convert draft to high quality' but then go into PAGE
SETUP and select 'high quality'.

 

I usually do not use the "Save As PDF". I get better results with
Adobe Distiller or PDF995.

 

I'm talking about 'print to pdf' not 'save as pdf'. Gives better
quality results.