Ongoing Issues with exporting drawings to PDFs

[abassett]

When ever my company creates a drawing, any text that appears on the part is exported as geometry, and the text becomes segemented lines that become impossible to read on the drawings. We have attempted to alter the pen tables without luck, we have tried to use true type fonts, stroke all fonts. Nothing seems to remedy this. This is very frustrating when we create a label in 3D to place on an assembly,then create a drawing.When exported to PDF the working on any labels is totally illegible. There has to be a fix for this. Can someone point me in the right direction?

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[kimndave9]

Is it that people can read it on the screen/drawing and not read it in the PDF or is it that there is no selectable text embedded in the PDF for the label?

Text that is introduced into Sketcher for making features is converted by Sketcher into segments for use by the rest of the Pro/E or Creo geometry engine.

However it should be legible, so the description is confusing as to the exact nature of the problem.

In Reply to Andrew Bassett:

When ever my company creates a drawing, any text that appears on the part is exported as geometry, and the text becomes segemented lines that become impossible to read on the drawings. We have attempted to alter the pen tables without luck, we have tried to use true type fonts, stroke all fonts. Nothing seems to remedy this. This is very frustrating when we create a label in 3D to place on an assembly,then create a drawing.When exported to PDF the working on any labels is totally illegible. There has to be a fix for this. Can someone point me in the right direction?

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[BrianKrieger]

I'll have to go look it up and confirm, but we had an issue where Adobe couldn't map the fonts and put in its own. The fix for us was to change the adobe publish setting to stroke fonts. You lose some text that way, though (if I recall).

Brian Krieger
Peterbilt Motors

[jer3d1]

Had a similar issue, here are my notes:

Problem: In our worker configuration, the publisher does not pick up typefaces from the system as the user configurations do.

Solution: Add the typefaces to the Creo install on the worker machine, voila, no more stroked fonts:

<ptcloadpoint>\Creo\Common Files\<build code=">\Text\Fonts



All the best,
Jered

[llie]

We have created a mapkey that changes the output to monochrome, stroke all fonts, and searchable pdf's. We added our mapkey to the toolbar, edit the icon and copy the existing PTC one. Then, we swap out the PTC icon in the toolbar with ours. The users don't know because the icon is exactly the same, but it runs our mapkey and cuts out the user confusion with all the different printing options.

We have been doing this since WF4. If you need help, let me know.

Lance Lie