Outlander Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 We've recently changed our landscape plan graphics to use a photorealistic type look, and so have been using image fills rather than solid fills for turf areas, planting areas, etc. I'm really happy with how it looks, however when I export the drawing to a PDF, the images fills appear with thin grey lines outlining each image that makes up the fill - looks really bad. When I print from the PDF though, the grey lines are gone and it looks great. Most people these days, including our clients, will only look at the PDF's though, so I need the PDF to look proper too. Anyone else had this problem before. Please help! I've attached the PDF for reference. Quote Link to comment
Monadnoc Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 It displays fine for me, no grey outlines anywhere. Although in Preview the text was gone. Text displayed in Acrobat Reader. I'm on a Mac. Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Outlander - Could you post your system and vectorworks specs? A signature for your posts can be created in the My Stuff pulldown. This would help. The pdf displays a bit differently on my system than on Monadnoc's system. Sorry, this offers no help: In Adobe Reader v11.4.04 1. A grid of faint gray lines appears throughout the drawing. I thought they were concrete joints or other hardscape lines at first. 2. Text appears normal. In Apple Preview 5.0.3 (504.1) 1. No grid lines. The background image looks good. 2. All text is invisible. No text, but the leader lines are visible OK, good luck! -B Quote Link to comment
VincentCuclair Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 (edited) To solve the text/font problem try exporting the pdf text rasterized......the file will probably be smaller too.... Edited January 14, 2014 by Vincent C Quote Link to comment
Outlander Posted January 16, 2014 Author Share Posted January 16, 2014 It seems as though the image fills, exported to PDF, display properly on Macs, but not PCs. Can someone else with a PC verify this? Hopefully this issue will be corrected in the next update. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted January 16, 2014 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted January 16, 2014 This is what I see when I open your PDF in Adobe Reader XI on Windows 8.1: Quote Link to comment
Monadnoc Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Same with me. I tried it at work on a Windows 7 computer with Acrobat Reader and it displayed the grey lines. They looked like concrete joints all thorough the parking area. Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 (edited) The lines are everywhere inside the curb. Very faint in some areas. Some are gray, some are black. Is there a layer or viewport with an errant layer or layer override set to gray? -B Edited January 17, 2014 by Benson Shaw Quote Link to comment
Outlander Posted January 17, 2014 Author Share Posted January 17, 2014 The grey lines occur everywhere that an image fill is placed, and they are the actual outline of where the image ends and starts again. There are no drafted lines like that in the drawing file. Interestingly, the same drawing plots just fine, without the grey lines. It is only in Adobe Acrobat or Reader that they appear. Not sure why the text is missing when viewed on a Mac. Guess that's whole other issue. Quote Link to comment
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