STOP Arbortext docs published to PDF from down converting the PVZ images to Raster. 

So the problem is - when we try to author documents in PTC Arbortext and use the PTC Illustrate  .pvz files for the graphics - the publishing engine doesn’t publish the original .pvz content when creating a .pdf.  it downconverts all the graphics to raster images rather than keeping the vector line art and 3D Steps ect.

As for validating this problem:

We did various testing  to try to get the Arbortext docs to publish to PDF without converting the PVZ images to Raster.  The only thing we were successfully able to do was find was an option to output the images to a higher resolution raster during the conversion.  But we need the pdf to retain the vector line art and text from the .pvz graphics and or utilize the full 3D .pvz functionality.

Basically to verify that the .pvz file creation from PTC Illustrate was not somehow rasterized before we added to Arbortext - we opened in various other programs to prove the .pvz files opened with all the animated Steps and vector illustrations.  ( We used Creo View to test that the files opened and viewed as they should.  We also were able to open them in Adobe Acrobat and confirmed that when the .pvz file was saved out from there as a PDF, that it opened, and all the vector illustrations displayed correctly, including the 3D step file played the animation and worked correctly. )

So that test confirmed to us that the published Illustrate .pvz file is fine and contains all the correct attributes.  And a native PDF file is able to load/ view the .pvz without converting it to raster.

So because of that - we think we narrowed it down to something that is happening in the conversion  with the publishing engine from Arbortext - or possibly a setting?

This rasterization is a unacceptable output for our customers and should not be happening from this file type. 

This greatly limits the usability functionality of both Illustrate and Arbortext for us to provide CMM solutions across the Aviation and Areospace industry and to all our customers. 

Please provide a update or fix for this problems at the very least the next software revision.

Thanks