Creating a PDF from WF3 tool bar

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When creating a PDF from WF3 M140 tool bar, the format of a dimension displays differently in Acrobat. In Proe the dimension displays as 7.348 +/-.005 but after creating the PDF from Proe the dimension in Acrobat display as 7.3+/- +/-.005 with one of the two +/- symbols laying over the .005 tolerance number. What is the best way to deal with this? I am trying out Arial as a default font. We want to use the Proe generated PDF because they are text searchable. This is a nice feature to have when you need to use a keyword search in Windchill. Maybe there is a better font type? If I use the default Proe, non-true type font, then i have issue when creating the PDF because the font gets substituted and my text shifts on the drawings.
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[GlenWisham]

We have some customers that just love the idea of having searchable,
copyable and editable text in PDF files and this is ok in some
applications, but we are talking engineering drawings here, legal
documents.

Apple has done a good job helping to evolve text recognition technology,
but there are still bugs and differences between text font mapping, and
the technology has not completely matured, yet.

Some of the folks in my office have been using the method you mention to
create PDF's, and the outcome has been that we are starting to have folks
generating PDF's that say one thing when their drawing says another.

I do not believe this is a good thing and personally use the old standard
print to PDF file method to insure that what I've put in the Pro/E
database gets read by my partners and customers.

I say take the weekend off and think about it.


Glen R Wisham
Sr Technical Support Engineer
Electronic Warfare Systems
Raytheon Company

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When creating a PDF from WF3 M140 tool bar, the format of a dimension
displays differently in Acrobat. In Proe the dimension displays as 7.348
+/-.005 but after creating the PDF from Proe the dimension in Acrobat
display as 7.3+/- +/-.005 with one of the two +/- symbols laying over the
.005 tolerance number. What is the best way to deal with this? I am trying
out Arial as a default font. We want to use the Proe generated PDF because
they are text searchable. This is a nice feature to have when you need to
use a keyword search in Windchill. Maybe there is a better font type? If I
use the default Proe, non-true type font, then i have issue when creating
the PDF because the font gets substituted and my text shifts on the
drawings.

[ptc-20263]

This issue is still in WF4 M020. I never noticed in previous versions as I always used stroked fonts. Since "upgrading" to WF4, I thought stroked fonts did not display properly in PDF files, even when selecting stroked fonts in the PDF creation dialog box. I switch our new drawings to Arial TTF and thought things work OK.

The last dwg I created had symmetrical tolerances and that when I notice this issue. A work around I found is if you choose symmetrical superscript, the dimension will display properly. I submitted a trouble ticket noting this problem.


Had I known this was an issue, I would have stuck with WF3 and stroked fonts, which worked pretty well in PDF files. Hopefully PTC will fix this very annoying problem.


Doug



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When creating a PDF from WF3 M140 tool bar, the format of a dimension displays differently in Acrobat. In Proe the dimension displays as 7.348 +/-.005 but after creating the PDF from Proe the dimension in Acrobat display as 7.3+/- +/-.005 with one of the two +/- symbols laying over the .005 tolerance number. What is the best way to deal with this? I am trying out Arial as a default font. We want to use the Proe generated PDF because they are text searchable. This is a nice feature to have when you need to use a keyword search in Windchill. Maybe there is a better font type? If I use the default Proe, non-true type font, then i have issue when creating the PDF because the font gets substituted and my text shifts on the drawings.

[DamianCastillo]

I still use Ghost Script and FreeDist to generate all our PDF's perfectly. All PDF's are dumped in a PDF folder we assigned on the network and everyone knows where to look when they are needing one.

I think the built in PDF is great, as long as it works correctly for you. I will continue to use Ghost Script until I feel more comfortable with the built in PDF option.

"If you are not living life on the Edge, You are taking up too much space"