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UGMENTALCASE  
#1 Posted : Thursday, January 25, 2018 2:18:21 AM(UTC)
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Morning,

Struggling to get a drawing exported in a printable format here. I've tried CGM, as we used this years ago, as our customer didn't like how NX printed PDFs so we had to export to CGM first, then pdf from there. The exported CGM is attached, leaves a lot to be desired! Any other suggestions would be great. I basically need a PDF that is crisp and clear.

I've tried a number of settings, one throws my dimensions everywhere, others don't fit the page properly, others when you zoom in looks like road kill, could really use some help if possible please?

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#2 Posted : Thursday, January 25, 2018 3:32:54 AM(UTC)
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Morning,

Struggling to get a drawing exported in a printable format here. I've tried CGM, as we used this years ago, as our customer didn't like how NX printed PDFs so we had to export to CGM first, then pdf from there. The exported CGM is attached, leaves a lot to be desired! Any other suggestions would be great. I basically need a PDF that is crisp and clear.

I've tried a number of settings, one throws my dimensions everywhere, others don't fit the page properly, others when you zoom in looks like road kill, could really use some help if possible please?

Thanks



Have you tried Adobe Illustrator ? You can edit line thickness + font size etc and the exported pdf (save as pdf)is really crisp, have a try....

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UGMENTALCASE  
#3 Posted : Thursday, January 25, 2018 3:48:35 AM(UTC)
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Hi, I don't have a way to open .ai files. I tried all the changing .ai to .pdf and various other things and it's not great. I can use my other converter to change ai to pdf, but it's throwing my text out on the drawing.

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#4 Posted : Thursday, January 25, 2018 5:13:56 AM(UTC)
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So sorry, I was not very clear about the import issue:
I opended/imported your file : fab.cgm with Illustrator and saved this imported files as pdf.

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#5 Posted : Thursday, January 25, 2018 5:37:46 AM(UTC)
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Ah ok got you. I opened the CGM file in Larson which I've used for years and this is the result....
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#6 Posted : Thursday, January 25, 2018 5:49:47 AM(UTC)
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Can you just print to PDF directly? This is one of cleanest way to get a drawing

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#7 Posted : Thursday, January 25, 2018 6:16:03 AM(UTC)
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Printing direct to pdf I lose my 'alt codes' on the drawing which I've used for text
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#8 Posted : Thursday, January 25, 2018 6:27:53 AM(UTC)
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the other thing I've noticed is, that drawing is A0 size. If I print to pdf, and select A0 size, the A0 ends up like this?
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#9 Posted : Thursday, January 25, 2018 6:28:53 AM(UTC)
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Printing direct to pdf I lose my 'alt codes' on the drawing which I've used for text


Which printer driver are you using? Does it have the option to change how fonts are handled?

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#10 Posted : Thursday, January 25, 2018 6:35:19 AM(UTC)
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the other thing I've noticed is, that drawing is A0 size. If I print to pdf, and select A0 size, the A0 ends up like this?


Go into file -> page layout and fit the drawing or selected to page size?

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UGMENTALCASE  
#11 Posted : Thursday, January 25, 2018 6:44:35 AM(UTC)
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Ah got that now, fit to page threw my text everywhere, so I've had to go into the advanced bit and change a load of stuff :-)
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#12 Posted : Thursday, January 25, 2018 6:56:30 AM(UTC)
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Is the text outside draw views ? Maybe you can post a sample file so I can try to print to PDF. I tried arial alt codes and cute PDF printed them ok.


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#13 Posted : Thursday, January 25, 2018 8:43:41 AM(UTC)
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Who would've known a free pdf printer would save the day! Abbey Fine Reader I was using and it was messing it up!
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#14 Posted : Thursday, January 25, 2018 8:56:53 AM(UTC)
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Who would've known a free pdf printer would save the day! Abbey Fine Reader I was using and it was messing it up!


Yeah,pdf is a common format but there are many differences in the generation of pdf files by the different programs on mac and pc.

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