jcron

thanks for responding . . . were running 10.2.3

hi, im running vectorworks 9.5.3 on OS 10.2 and am experiencing a variety of problems, the most recent being that any text, (notes, dimensions, symbols) dissapears after zooming in to the drawing. it reappears after zooming out to the original position, but after multiple zooms it seems to be lost completely. it prints fine. but even after exiting and re-opening vw, its still not there. so frustrating . . . help?

We got it: The Problem--- OS X generates PDF's that are 2 generations old...the latest PDF version is 1.4, and OS X creates versions 1.2. This results in poor diagonal and curve smoothing, etc. Evidently it isn't meant for graphics or print professionals, just home and business users with fewer graphic needs. See http://www.macworld.com/2001/07/09osx_pdf.html So we bought Acrobat 5, and will run the files through the Distiller, just like old times! Too bad...we were happy to see the built-in PDFs in X. Thanks again Katie for your help. Jim

Katie, Thanks for your reply. However I can't find anything relating to 'anti-aliasing' settings anywhere - in Apple's System Prefs, or VW's Preferences, Page Setup, or Print... options. While experimenting a little more, I found the following Genuine Mystery: When a VW PDF is viewed and printed through Adobe Reader 5.0, the line weights look terrible, as described above. When a VW PDF is viewed and printed through Apple's "Preview" application...it looks great. So....am I barking up the wrong software developer tree? What is the difference here? Best, Jim

Greetings all, I'd like to follow up on an earlier issue - strange line weights generated by PDF's in OSX.2.1. We have 4 macs (2 bondi imacs and 2 g4s) running VW 9.5.3 on Jaguar. Before updating to Jaguar and VW 9.5.3, we had a flawless PDF system whereby we created the file through a desktop printer, emailed it to a plotting bureau, and got the plots back in record time, looking beautiful. NOW, using the built-in PDF writer, our plots come back looking terrible - any angled line is too dark, diagonal hatches are too dark, curves and arcs are too dark...we have to plot everything from an old 9.2.2 box just to get the drawing output we want. It's not a good situation. What is the solution? Is anyone else having this problem? Thanks for any advice, Jim