Benson Shaw Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Just noticed that my Published to pdf sheets always have rasterized text. The option for rasterize text is disabled in dialog for each sheet. To test, I enabled the option, published (= rasterized text), then disabled the option and published again. Same result. Text is rasterized. Export or Print to pdf produces unrasterized text, as expected. Did I miss a Publish setting or pref? Thanks! -B Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted April 24, 2015 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted April 24, 2015 I am unable to replicate this on Windows or Mac. If you create a new blank file and add a single text object, then viewport it to a sheet layer and publish or save a view of it and publish with Rasterize Text off, does it still do it? Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted April 24, 2015 Author Share Posted April 24, 2015 Yes. Still happens. - Attached is vwx created after system restart, and pdf created via Publish. Publish options for pdf of this sheet layer have disabled the Rasterize Text. Some other setting or pref? -B Quote Link to comment
AlanW Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Hi, On the export panel I Have un-ticked the rasterize text box and I get this. Appears to be un-rasterized. Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted April 25, 2015 Author Share Posted April 25, 2015 Thanks for looking , Alan! Are you using Publish or Export? Export works as expected. In Publish, I have the box unticked, and still get the rasterized output. -B Quote Link to comment
AlanW Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 (edited) Export and publish from your file and got the same results. Both appeared to be NOT rasterized like my previous post. Edited April 25, 2015 by Alan Woodwell Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted April 25, 2015 Author Share Posted April 25, 2015 Same meaning as your previous? or same as my results? PDF text is rasterized from Publish? Anyway, thanks. My pdf text is always rasterized from Publish. Whether I check or uncheck the Rasterize Text option makes no difference. Export and Print to PDF the text is not rasterized. ??? -B Quote Link to comment
AlanW Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 (edited) Sorry the forgot to include the files. Both export and publish from your file produced the un-rasterized result. Edited April 25, 2015 by Alan Woodwell Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted April 25, 2015 Author Share Posted April 25, 2015 Thanks. I was afraid of that. I'm still looking for what's wrong. Maybe my VWX installation is corrupt. -B Quote Link to comment
Henry Finch Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 I have this same problem on my iMac. Publish rasterizes the PDF. Print to PDF works correctly. I'm switching to VW 2015 from VW 2013 and mac mini 2009 to iMac late 2013 henry Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted May 5, 2015 Author Share Posted May 5, 2015 Henry - a theory: It's the font! I'm using Avant Garde. If I switch to Geneva, or Century Gothic, or several others, the text is not rasterized. But this is new to v2015 and mac OS10.9.5. Avant Garde was not rasterized by Publish in v2014 w/10.6.8 Font Book indicates a name table error. I'll see if I can find a new Avant Garde and try that. -B Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted May 5, 2015 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted May 5, 2015 A font-specific issue would make sense since myself and others testing that same file didn't get the same result. Especially if FontBook is popping an error up. If the font was installed on an earlier OS and migrated over to the newer 10.9, it could have become corrupted during that as well, I see that fairly regularly especially if it was upgraded multiple times. Sometimes just a reinstall of the font cures it. Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted May 5, 2015 Author Share Posted May 5, 2015 If I replace the font with a new suitcase, should I get ttf? otf? other? Thx -B Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted May 5, 2015 Author Share Posted May 5, 2015 Also, the problem font is in my user>library >fonts folder, not the system>library>fonts folder. Does the publish command access user and system fonts? or only the system ones? -B Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted May 5, 2015 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted May 5, 2015 TTF/TrueTypeFont if possible, I see the fewest issues with those and am told that if we have issues related to TTF specifically, they will definitely be patched. More details on that here if needed: http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/618/Fonts Quote Link to comment
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