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Yigal D - 10/20/2024 10:48:39 AM
   
2D Export to PDF faint some lines and all text
KeyCreator Pro Standard - 2025 SP0

Hello
Problem: A DXF ready 2D file, export to PDF, Black&white 1200dpi , some entities and all the text are faint.
When exported to DXF, everything is OK.
When Printing to PDF using "CutePDF Writer", everything is OK. (I can use it, almost the same mouse clicks, but since I also use normal printing action on the same file, it is inconvenient to change Printer definition every time)

Any suggestions ?

Yigal





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Yigal D - 10/20/2024 11:28:39 AM
   
RE:2D Export to PDF faint some lines and all text
After more triales, Found a solution.

KeyCreator is OK, proble is in Acrobat.

Acrobat PDF setting (Ctrl K)
Page Display
Uncheck "Smooth line art"

Yigal
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francis.marcoux@ipexna.com - 10/21/2024 9:08:35 PM
   
RE:2D Export to PDF faint some lines and all text
That is good to know! Thanks for the hint.
Francis Marcoux
IPEX Technologies
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Dana - 10/22/2024 7:44:26 AM
   
RE:2D Export to PDF faint some lines and all text
Look at your print configuration in tools-options.  You can set the width of printed entities.  If "not scaled", I believe the line will be one pixel wide, which is pretty small on a 1200 DPI printer.  The width (in mm) is set by the "flag" value of each entity (it used to be called pen number).  I use 0.212 for flag (pen) 1, and go up from there, but have .071 for #8, which correspondes to 1 pixel on the old 360 DPI printer I used to use, and still is a reasonable minimum width; I set some detail entities to #8 for finer lines.

You can also map it by color number, but I don't as I use color more for on-screen visualization.

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