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JohnArcher10-Marble
10-Marble
July 17, 2024
Question

PDF file formation from Prime 10 using Win 10

  • July 17, 2024
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Are there any file format rules about "Save as PDF or "Print to PDF? 

I generate 30 page workshheets with a few plots with many line styles and trace colors.

Very often the PDF conversion process ignores some colors and changes line styles.

Text and graphics are well spaced.

This has become an on and off case-file for some time and I am working with a PTC help agent in India.

On one occasion I removed all text and plots were perfect!  

We have no ideas about the problem.

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Werner_E25-Diamond I
25-Diamond I
July 17, 2024

Apart from Primes export facility and the Microsoft Print to PDF driver you may try some other PDF printer drivers like CutePDF, Adobe PDF Print, FreePDF, doPDF, PDF24, 7-PDF, etc. A lot of them a free, others usually offer a trial period during which you can test the software.

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    JeffH116-Pearl
    16-Pearl
    July 20, 2024

    PDF995 is free as well.

     

    BlueBeam is not free ($260), but we use it at my place of employment and it's a full-featured replacement for Acrobat Pro.  It also has a free trial.

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    JohnArcher10-MarbleAuthor
    10-Marble
    July 30, 2024

    Thanks for your reply. I had totally forgotten about this procedure. 

    I tend to get very focussed on design problems; I am 88 and probably too old to change! 

    When we install Mathcad Prime 10 we also get some Adobe files, and I was

    surprised to discover the PDF "Save as" or "Print to" processes were not standardized for colors or colours.

    I was sure that I was doing something wrong with Mathcad Prime and spent way too much

    time hunting for my errors. My first Mathcad was on a 5.25 inch floppy disk!

    Finally settled on CutePDF as is did not mess with plotted line styles.

     

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