I am working on a Mac PowerBook, using OS 10.4.11, with VW Designer (Educational Version) 12.5.1.
I made a drawing of a garden that includes many areas of different patterns (groundcovers, lawn, gravel paths, etc). The patterns were filled into various polygon/polyline areas. They all look fine on my monitor.
I made a Batch PDF of different viewports (3 different scales from 1" = 20' to 1/4" = 1' 0") and the PDFs all look fine on my monitor. So far so good.
I took the PDFs to my local Kinkos and printed them out on their large plotter (Os? TDS450). None of the patterns printed as patterns. Some became solid fields of light gray (3 different shades). Other patterns turned in heavy black bars (stripes).
Is this a known problem? Is this the particular plotter, or PDFs? (would JPEGs be better?)
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I am working on a Mac PowerBook, using OS 10.4.11, with VW Designer (Educational Version) 12.5.1.
I made a drawing of a garden that includes many areas of different patterns (groundcovers, lawn, gravel paths, etc). The patterns were filled into various polygon/polyline areas. They all look fine on my monitor.
I made a Batch PDF of different viewports (3 different scales from 1" = 20' to 1/4" = 1' 0") and the PDFs all look fine on my monitor. So far so good.
I took the PDFs to my local Kinkos and printed them out on their large plotter (Os? TDS450). None of the patterns printed as patterns. Some became solid fields of light gray (3 different shades). Other patterns turned in heavy black bars (stripes).
Is this a known problem? Is this the particular plotter, or PDFs? (would JPEGs be better?)
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