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4-Participant
Aug 21, 2023 5:38 PM UTC
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symbols shift when exporting pdf of drawing. ver 3.0

creo drawing ver 3.0

my client has a symbol defined that is a triangle (lay it down sideways so it points to the left) with a number imbedded.  It is used to identify a note that applies to the view feature.   The symbol is used with blank for number and placed over the notes.  When a pdf export is performed, the symbol has shifted location.

attached are screen shots of creo drawing and pdf export.

So far I have attempted entering blank spaces for the variable text and "  ." (space space dot) and it does not seem to effect position.

 

 

24-Ruby III
Aug 22, 2023 6:03 PM UTC

@SL_10676292 wrote:

Hi @MartinHanak  - Is there a way to maintain a desirable font?  the set of lines looks unacceptable.

 

"Stroke All Fonts option to break text displayed by a Creo font named font into a set of lines."


Hi,

in Creo you have two options:

 

1.] use font (proprietary Creo font) in drawing and Stroke All Fonts or Stroke Non TrueType Fonts option

Note: config.pro options and pentable must be set properly.

 

2.] use TrueType font in drawing and Use TrueType Fonts option

 

Attached video shows both options.

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14-Alexandrite
Aug 21, 2023 5:43 PM UTC

is it possible to share data?

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4-Participant
Aug 22, 2023 1:20 PM UTC

No - I can not share

 

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kdirth
21-Topaz I
Aug 21, 2023 6:01 PM UTC

Looks like an issue with the font.  If you look at the screenshot, there is more space between the characters than in the printed version.

 

A quick fix is to check Stroke All Fonts in the content tab of the export settings or printer tab of Printer configuration.

 

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4-Participant
Aug 22, 2023 1:28 PM UTC

Stroke all fonts helped to align the symbol with the notes.  Thank you.

This created a new problem in that the lettering is all very thin.  With the default setting (not selecting stroke all fonts) the thickness of the characters increases proportionally to the height of the font.  That is a desirable effect that is lost with this setting.

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24-Ruby III
Aug 22, 2023 7:35 AM UTC

Hi,

as @kdirth said, you have to use the Stroke All Fonts option to break text displayed by a Creo font named font into a set of lines.

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4-Participant
Aug 22, 2023 1:30 PM UTC

Hi @MartinHanak  - Is there a way to maintain a desirable font?  the set of lines looks unacceptable.

 

"Stroke All Fonts option to break text displayed by a Creo font named font into a set of lines."

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kdirth
21-Topaz I
Aug 22, 2023 2:09 PM UTC

You will need to use truetype fonts to maintain spacing when printing.

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