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Re: "save as pdf" looks terrible

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
 




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"save as pdf" looks terrible
Aggrevated <tclement@[  2008-03-28 15:19:21 
Re: "save as pdf" looks terrible
Aggrevated <tclement@[  2008-03-28 15:33:18 
Re: "save as pdf" looks terrible
"Janes" <dja  2008-03-28 17:11:01 
Re: "save as pdf" looks terrible
"Janes" <dja  2008-03-28 17:16:59 
Re: "save as pdf" looks terrible
"Janes" <dja  2008-04-10 20:30:03 
Re: "save as pdf" looks terrible
Aggrevated <tclement@[  2008-04-11 10:16:07 

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