by "Janes" <djanes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Apr 10, 2008 at 08:30 PM
"Aggrevated" <tclement@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:2e636c22-a716-4b0e-9cb2-6b6df7903771@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Ok, so I've been reading a lot of posts about changing pen definition
> files and such. It sounds rediculously complicated.
>
> I never plot. I never print directly from Pro/e. Everything becomes
> a pdf first (i guess this is just printing with the distiller) using
> save-as then pdf.
>
> My problem is that even jacked up to 600dpi, my pdf's are ugly. My
> line widths for everything are just too large.
>
> If I save-as to dwg and then create a pdf from dwg-editor (AutoCAD)
> they look fantastic.
>
> Is there any easy fix for this? Distiller options I can change? Or
> am I going to have to futz with my table.pnt?
>
> Anybody have a good table.pnt that I can have a copy of that makes
> great pdfs?
Someone recently recommended this option for cleaning up pdf line weights
and other printing problems:
USE_SOFTWARE_LINEFONTS set to yes.
Has anything helped so far?
David Janes