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Question asked by Mark Marabito on May 2, 2008
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Hi Folks,

This is my first post. The pdf files of our drawings from SW2007 are beautiful. You can zoom in as much as you want and the lines are straight, not jagged. We now are on SW2008 SP2.1 and the pdf's are unacceptable resolutions. I set it to high quality in "the save as pdf" options box. This just made it take longer to create, but was still raster format.

Is there a way to set SW to output the pdf in the vectorized format?

Thanks,

Mark Marabito May 5, 2008 11:56 AM

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Hi Kevin,

As it turns out, your first question (views draft mode?) hit the nail on the head.
I had set all of the settings I could find to high quality views, but this does not change views that were already in draft mode. I checked the rest of our seats, and all of the views are in draft mode since we installed SW2008. Somehow, the default setting must have been changed for this version.

It looks like I have to open each drawing and click on a view and then check high quality view in the properties that pop up in the feature manager area. By the way, this check box only appears if the view you clicked on is draft quality.

Does anyone know of a batch method that could accomplish this conversion?

Thanks for your help.

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Kelvin Lamport May 2, 2008 4:30 PM

Do you have any shaded views in your drawing? If so, that will force the pdf to be created as a raster format.

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Mark Marabito @ Kelvin Lamport on May 2, 2008 6:12 PM

There are no shaded views. We just have plain Jane details, but we do use the occaisional iso view.

Thanks,

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Kevin Quigley May 2, 2008 6:16 PM

Are any of the views draft mode? Or did you save as pdf while the views were rebuilding or while the rebuild was stopped? I use pdf all the time and provided you wait for the views to fully rebuild you will get vectors.

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Mark Marabito @ Kevin Quigley on May 2, 2008 8:00 PM

Hi Kevin,

I tried waiting after a normal update and save. It didn't make any difference.
Here's another weird thing. I opened a drawing file from last year, and did a save as pdf and it still produces a good pdf with vectors. Even if the resolution is low in SW2008, the pdf looks great when you zoom in. So this drawing retained something from SW2007 even though I saved it in SW2008. Is there a way to tell what version a drawing was created in?

Thanks,

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Mark Marabito @ Kevin Quigley on May 5, 2008 11:56 AM

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Kelvin Lamport May 2, 2008 7:52 PM

Have you tried printing to a PDF printer? Do you get the same problem?

Have you tried any of the 3rd party PDF creators?
pdf995
cutepdf

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Mark Marabito @ Kelvin Lamport on May 2, 2008 8:04 PM

I tried printing to the pdf printer with the same results. I haven't tried the 3rd party ones yet. I'll try the two you named here.

Thanks for the leads.

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Kelvin Lamport May 2, 2008 4:30 PM
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Do you have any shaded views in your drawing? If so, that will force the pdf to be created as a raster format.
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- Mark Marabito @ Kelvin Lamport on May 2, 2008 6:12 PM
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  There are no shaded views. We just have plain Jane details, but we do use the occaisional iso view.
  
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Kevin Quigley May 2, 2008 6:16 PM
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Are any of the views draft mode? Or did you save as pdf while the views were rebuilding or while the rebuild was stopped? I use pdf all the time and provided you wait for the views to fully rebuild you will get vectors.
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- Mark Marabito @ Kevin Quigley on May 2, 2008 8:00 PM
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  Hi Kevin,
  
  I tried waiting after a normal update and save. It didn't make any difference.
  Here's another weird thing. I opened a drawing file from last year, and did a save as pdf and it still produces a good pdf with vectors. Even if the resolution is low in SW2008, the pdf looks great when you zoom in. So this drawing retained something from SW2007 even though I saved it in SW2008. Is there a way to tell what version a drawing was created in?
  
  Thanks,
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- Mark Marabito @ Kevin Quigley on May 5, 2008 11:56 AM
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  Hi Kevin,
  
  As it turns out, your first question (views draft mode?) hit the nail on the head.
  I had set all of the settings I could find to high quality views, but this does not change views that were already in draft mode. I checked the rest of our seats, and all of the views are in draft mode since we installed SW2008. Somehow, the default setting must have been changed for this version.
  
  It looks like I have to open each drawing and click on a view and then check high quality view in the properties that pop up in the feature manager area. By the way, this check box only appears if the view you clicked on is draft quality.
  
  Does anyone know of a batch method that could accomplish this conversion?
  
  Thanks for your help.
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Kelvin Lamport May 2, 2008 7:52 PM
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Have you tried printing to a PDF printer? Do you get the same problem?

Have you tried any of the 3rd party PDF creators?
pdf995
cutepdf
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- Mark Marabito @ Kelvin Lamport on May 2, 2008 8:04 PM
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  I tried printing to the pdf printer with the same results. I haven't tried the 3rd party ones yet. I'll try the two you named here.
  
  Thanks for the leads.
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