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tcarrington1-Visitor
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April 21, 2010
Question

PDF's With 64 Bit

  • April 21, 2010
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All:
We have a user here with a new Dell 64 bit that y'all recommended for
him. The question is: how can I get him to make PDF's with a 64 bit
Dell running Windows XP and Wildfire 3 M100? I gave him my mapkey, but
that still didn't work. Let me know if you need any more information.
Thanks is advance.

Tom Carrington


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dustin1-Visitor
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April 21, 2010

Tom,

We wrestled with this issue for quite a long time before we found out what the issue was. We have (2) XP-64bit machines and (1) 32-bit machine. The x32 was always able to save as .pdf while the x64 could not (we were using WF3 at the time. It turns out that at the time PTC made WF3, Adobe needed some refinement to operate in 64-bit environment. So save as .pdf was only available in the x32 version of WF3. As far as I know, there is no work-around either other than to use a x32 OS and WF3.

Sorry I only have bad news for you there.

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srector1-Visitor
1-Visitor
April 22, 2010

Tom,

Have you considered a tool like PDF Creator?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

It's open source and will allow your users to create PDFs from any windows application.

Steve

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bkurth10-Marble
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April 23, 2010

Another option would be to use the full version of Adobe Acrobat, if you have that available. We installed the full version of Acrobat on our 64-bit machine and used the Adobe PDF printer to create the files instead of the built-in function within Wildfire. You just print like you are going to print to paper, but use the Adobe PDF printer. Adobe Acrobat isn't the cheapest option, but if you already have the licenses, it would be worth a try.

Brian

In Reply to Tom Carrington:

All:
We have a user here with a new Dell 64 bit that y'all recommended for
him. The question is: how can I get him to make PDF's with a 64 bit
Dell running Windows XP and Wildfire 3 M100? I gave him my mapkey, but
that still didn't work. Let me know if you need any more information.
Thanks is advance.

Tom Carrington


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bbenitez1-Visitor
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April 23, 2010
We use a mix of Adobe Professional and Adobe 3-D and have never had a
problem with PDF's on either 32 or 64 bit workstations.

For $172 at Amazon and as low as $115 for the download version - that's a
small price to make the Pro-E PDF problems go away.

It's also even cheaper on a site license.



Anthony R. Benitez

Senior Mechanical Designer

Drafting Supervisor

Applied Research Laboratories

The University of Texas at Austin

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ptc-1689131-Visitor
1-Visitor
April 23, 2010

I had that same problem when I was running WF3 64-bit on my XP x64 machine. You can actually install the 32-bit version of WF3 on the x64 XP operating system. For awhile I had both versions installed at the same time, though there was probably a better way to deal with it 🙂

FYI - WF4 and WF5 64-bit have "restored" the capability to export pdf's.

Tom,

We wrestled with this issue for quite a long time before we found out what the issue was. We have (2) XP-64bit machines and (1) 32-bit machine. The x32 was always able to save as .pdf while the x64 could not (we were using WF3 at the time. It turns out that at the time PTC made WF3, Adobe needed some refinement to operate in 64-bit environment. So save as .pdf was only available in the x32 version of WF3. As far as I know, there is no work-around either other than to use a x32 OS and WF3.

Sorry I only have bad news for you there.

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rrich1-Visitor
1-Visitor
April 23, 2010
I have used a free PDF creator called PDFRedirect which you can get on
www.download.com . Another one is CutePDF either of these work through a
printer type setup.



Ron


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kimndave91-Visitor
1-Visitor
April 24, 2010

It would be nice if Pro/E wrote the font definitions and the text
strings to the Generic Postscript device. Then one could create a
searchable PDF with most any ps to PDF converter. AFAIK PTC did not do
this for the Generic Postscript device.

Also, it would be better if PTC did not compile in the Postscript
preamble, but keep it in a separate file that could be customized. Like
changing the linecap and linejoin defaults. Yeah, there are new config
options for PDF creation, but that just skims the surface of the
potential of controlling the preamble. External files that get inserted
just before showpage and just after showpage would also be useful.

What could be done with this? Adding whatever metadata was desired;
creating write-white output (natural material color on a dark background
for labels); creating composite write-black/write-white on a single
page; creating outlined letters instead of filled ones; the ability to
tile all sheets of a drawing onto a single page of output - some
printers do that, but I think they do not create a distributable file;
creating a mirror image page for processes where it is useful.

There are certainly other uses given that Postscript is a general
purpose programming language with vector, bitmap, and text handling, and
commands, macros, general execution control structures, and some file I/O.

Dave S.
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krichardson1-Visitor
1-Visitor
May 26, 2010

We have just discovered another problem using 'Print to PDF' from a 64 Bit machine. The highlight comment tool in Adobe does not work on the PDF. We have Adobe 8.0 standard here. I'm going to test a PDF in my copy of Adobe 9.0 Pro at home.

Kathy

Pro/E Wildfile 3.0

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