luminouslx Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Hello, Recently switched from PC to MAC and have had problems plotting from PDF. More specifically, lighting symbols (such as S4 ERS) with barrel deliniations are unintelligible. The symbol prints beautifully, but the greyscale 19*, 26*, 36* etc. cannot be read. Is this a problem that anyone else has had? I am using Adobe 7.0 pro to print my VW plots to PDF at 300dpi. I take those PDFs via thumbdrive or email to my local blue print shop. This is the only problem related to the conversion. There are no other scaling or line-weight issues. Is this an issue with a greyscale setting, or on the production side? Feel like I'm missing an obvious problem or setting, but can't put my finger on it. Never encountered it on my PC versions. Any help is greatly appreciated!! Thanks, Peter Quote Link to comment
markdd Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 I recently became a MAC nut but had horrid printing problems because I have an A1 plotter with only PC drivers. Printing from pdf is ok. UP the res to 600 dpi in your sheet layer box and try that. It should help as it makes wapping big files. Alternateivly keep the terrible old PC and use it as a kind of print server and use the vectorworks reader software to talk to it. Hope my tribulations help!! Mark Quote Link to comment
luminouslx Posted January 17, 2006 Author Share Posted January 17, 2006 Thank you, Mark. Upon further exploration, the problem doesn't seem to be printing to PDF so much as plotting the PDF. I can open the PDF and look zoom in 400% and the Symbol & label are clear as day. Maybe it's time to talk to the print shop. Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 Are those numbers in color ? Recalling that colors print to greyscale depending on hue & tone, eg. red = black therefore red creates excellent grey tones, whereas lighter shades of blue = white and make lousy grey scales. Quote Link to comment
JGoss Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 I had problems using the grey text labels, our HP 750c+ plotter didn't make them clear, especially when a fixture was rotated off 0?/90?/180? Thats why I prefer to use the graphical ellipsoidal fixtures for that very reason. When you have 300+ fixture on a plot, all that grey text blends in, but the slashes always stand out. Just my personal preference... Quote Link to comment
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