All my dimensions and annotations look normal when I do a drawing but after it is checked into the vault and I view it as a .pdf all the dimensions and notes are shown as Bold. I have always used Century font with no issues. I did just recently upgrade to 2017. I have checked my drawing templates to make sure the font is correct and it is. Does anyone know what is going on?
Are you using save as or printing to pdf, I've notice when saving as pdf there is some issue with formatting however when I print to pdf those issues seem to go away.
I am using "Save As" PDF. We have some sort of batch file to do this to a group of files (in Document Control).
I think the "Print to PDF" is the Adobe software driver... Maybe that is why it works??
John
Ya i'm not too exactly sure, for my applications it's never really been too big of an issue but as mentioned above when I use print to pdf the drawing quality is much greater.
The font looks all good when the drawing is open in SolidWorks. If I print from the drawing it comes out normal but if I check it into the vault then "view as pdf" and print that the font is bold. Not sure what the heck is going on. It isn't a huge deal but I would prefer uniformity in my drawings for the Machinists and shop.
Have you contacted your VAR for support?
I am having the same issue with Solidworks Electrical.
If I do the automatic update to PDM, the PDF text/lines comes out bold and some becomes unreadable.
If I manually print the same project, the PDF text/lines come out perfect.
It is using PDF Creator.
John,
My issue ended up being that somehow the Century gothic font in my computer was modified and there was no longer the option for regular Century Gothic font. I have no Idea how that happened but I had someone send me a Century gothic font file and replaced the old one and it worked after that.
Peter,
I am going to do that today since it seems like it isn't a easy fix.
Thanks
I had the same problem. I got the fonts from a coworker, installed them, and double-checked that they were exporting to PDF's and everything was good to go.
Edit: options - system options - export - file format (pdf) - select embed fonts
is this Dusty Smith from New Glarus?
Actually my name is John but my intern used my email for the solidworks forum account and I haven't seen how to change the name
If this is done through a PDM task then you probably need to update the script for the convert task. I experienced a similar issue when upgrading from 2018 to 2019.
Open the task in the administration tool. Click "Output File Details" then click the items marked red in my screenshots. You may want to backup the original script first (copy and paste to another file).
Not the same issue but may be related.
I just contacted our VAR for a issue where the PDF does not match the solid works print or screen scale. In my case, all the lines were widened to .010" around the drawing and this was artwork with a logo and it closed up all the gaps in the logo. Seems to do it saving as AI and PSD files also. You could select this "wide" outline in the AI file so something is up.
Still open issue sent to SW from the VAR. I even saw this in with a later version DXF export where the lines were polylines and .010 wide. (Using 2017SP3)
If you have a full version of Adobe acrobat, you may be able to print to the Adobe print to PDF output as a workaround. (not confirmed) The VAR was going to have me change the line weights on the drawing settings (not a valid solution) and I said "no thank you"......
John