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mwuethrichii1-Visitor
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April 27, 2017
Question

Missing GD&T on PDF from drawing export

  • April 27, 2017
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Hello, I am newer to CREO 4.0. When I need to export my drawing to a PDF, my GD&T symbols go missing. Would there be something I need to add in my configuration editor from options? The only way I have found to fix this is to export as a TIFF file.

Thanks

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
April 27, 2017

Hi,

please attach picture of Creo window and picture of window showing PDF contents.

MH

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mwuethrichii1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
April 27, 2017

Hey Steven,

Correct. Every symbol (perpendicularity, concentricity, etc.), it does not show up. See the image.

Thanks

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mwuethrichii1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
April 27, 2017

This is from the drawing view.

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Mritunjay1-Visitor
1-Visitor
April 27, 2017

Mark,

Please try to move the GD&T symbol in separate layer and use Layer save status before exporting to pdf

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mwuethrichii1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
April 27, 2017

Hello,

I created a new layer, however, I am not familiar with "layer save status" where do i find that?

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Mritunjay1-Visitor
1-Visitor
April 27, 2017

Go to layer tree, RMB and then you will see third last option is Save status. See image

Layer Save status.png

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mwuethrichii1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
April 27, 2017

Hey Steven,

My settings match yours, except under fonts: I have USE TRUE TYPE FONTS.2017-04-27 08_37_00-PDF Export Settings.png

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
April 27, 2017

Hi,

set Stroke All Fonts option and export PDF.

MH

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mwuethrichii1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
April 27, 2017

Hey Martin,

Yes, I got the symbols to show on the PDF, Thanks! I clicked  Stroke All Fonts.

Thanks again

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23-Emerald IV
TomU23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
April 27, 2017

All GD&T symbols in Creo 4.0 use the new Arial WGL TrueType font.  They should go into the PDF just fine regardless of PDF output settings.  Are you using Creo 4.0 F000 or M010?

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23-Emerald IV
TomU23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
April 27, 2017

Actually, this is not correct.  The default font for Creo 4.0 is indeed the new Arial WGL font but the GD&T symbols actually use the SYMBOL font.

(This is using Creo 4.0 F000.)

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23-Emerald IV
TomU23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
April 27, 2017

Suddenly I am able to reproduce this.  Trying to figure out what changed...

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23-Emerald IV
TomU23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
April 27, 2017

I'm still not entirely sure how I'm creating this condition, but once it happens the PDF output settings don't fix it.  (Again, this is F000.)

Use TrueType Fonts

Stroke All Fonts

Stroke Non TrueType Fonts

Edit:  It's supposed to look like this:

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aeromorrison2-Explorer
2-Explorer
June 14, 2017

This is basically what I'm getting as well on Creo 4.0 M010. I can stroke all fonts, but the result looks horrible (like all line thicknesses double on the fonts). It appears Creo 4 no longer has the Stroke Non TrueType Fonts option. The only options are 'Use TrueType Fonts' and 'Stroke All Fonts'. When 'Stroke All Fonts' is selected, there is an additional option to Add Searchable Text. The option that fixed this problem in Creo 3 (Stroke Non TrueType Fonts) is missing in Creo 4 M010.

This is an unfortunate surprise when deadlines are missed because the PDF output was bad on something was fine the last time it was output to PDF.

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