PDF Settings....WF 5.0

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June 30, 2011
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Does anyone know of a way to control the settings in WF5.0 drawing ribbon Publish tab for PDF files?

I guess that I have two questions regarding this....

1) Is there a config option or something similar that allows me to set default preferences under the settings for PDF?

2) It seems as though I have to click on the settings button to get the settings to take effect on the next PDF even thought the values are set from the previous publish. What I mean by this is that we use the stroke all fonts option so that the text looks like the actual printed version of the drawing. Unless I go into the settings tab and click the content tab and ok, it still defaults to using the true type fonts even though when I bring up the dialogue box it already has stroke all fonts selected. Has anyone else seen this or better yet know how to keep from having to do this?

Thanks,

-Greg

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GrahameWard

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I'd like to know this too. To be fair the settings didn't stay put in earlier releases either, although I had a freakin' mapkey that did it for me!

On the question of PDFs.... if I make a PDF of a drawing in WF4.0, then open the same drw and export it in WF5.0 the PDFs look different. Yes, same settings.

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DHLewis

13-Aquamarine

You will find the config options either listed as intf2d_out... , intf_pdf... , or pdf... when using the Find tool in the options.

Specifically the Stroke all fonts is intf2d_out_stroke_text.

Hope that helps.

David

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GrahameWard

1-Visitor

Thanks, I tried

intf2d_out_stroke_text

I didn't do anything. I'm guessing that just sets the PDF output settings to "stroke all fonts" as default. We need to use true type fonts for our title block and besides the PDF output has changed in the line appearances, not the fonts. I tried all your other possibilities for config options but nothing else came up.

Here is a screen capture of a drawing (confidential info blanked out). The right side was outputted from 4.0 into PDF and the left was outputted from 5.0 into PDFD using the exact same settings.

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DHLewis

13-Aquamarine

Greg,

I you use the "Find..." button on the Options dialog, and input the items I mentioned before you will find all the other options available (See image). Based on your sample it looks like a pen table issue too. See pdf_use_pentable.

Also if you search for "ttf" you will find ttf_handling_for_plot_files. I don't know if this will help as I have not used it in the past but looks like it might be worth trying.

David.