James Milkey Posted January 10, 2001 Share Posted January 10, 2001 I've seen several posts on this but I have yet to see a solution. I too am printing to Acrobat and my text is shifting to the left and up which makes the pdf useless. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment
mikeconner Posted January 10, 2001 Share Posted January 10, 2001 How are you creating the PDF files? Do you printer to a PS file, then use Acrobat Distiller? What platform are you on? Quote Link to comment
jfmarch Posted January 11, 2001 Share Posted January 11, 2001 Adobe has a flaw with it's PDF writer- it cannot resolve rotated type, amongst other things. We have found a third party PDF writer that works quite well with VW. Its called PrintToPDF, and its available as a download (I think JWwalker.com). Its easy to install and use. Try it. Hope this helps. ------------------ Jim McAuliffe, RA Quote Link to comment
James Milkey Posted January 17, 2001 Author Share Posted January 17, 2001 Unfortunately I am on a wondows machine so PrintToPDF is no good to me. Any suggestions on a pdf program for windows? Thanks. Quote Link to comment
GRC Posted January 30, 2001 Share Posted January 30, 2001 I had the same problem using Acrobat. PrinttoPDF fixed it beautifully. For PC owners, go the to PrinttoPDF site and read the author's comments about Windows systems. He states some of the things you can do. Quote Link to comment
Robert Nichols Posted February 1, 2001 Share Posted February 1, 2001 I found that printing to a postscript file first, then making the pdf with Acrobat Distiller solved the text mangling problems of PDF Writer. I don't know how the whole postscript-to-distiller-to-pdf workflow works on a PC. (It's good to know about Print2PDF...thanks for the Mac tip list). Quote Link to comment
PeterT Posted February 5, 2001 Share Posted February 5, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Robert Nichols: I found that printing to a postscript file first, then making the pdf with Acrobat Distiller solved the text mangling problems of PDF Writer.B] I am on a Mac too, and indeed, the PDF Writer does not handle text well in a graphic document, however, Acrobat Distiller handles text flawlessly But the easiest way to use Distiller is to download AdobePS driver v.8.7 from Adobe's web site. Once installed, you can choose the AdobePS driver in the chooser, and the Distiller appears as a virtual printer in the pull down menu. Select the Distiller, and you can print to PDF as easily as with the PDF Writer directly from VectorWorks. Quote Link to comment
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