Caption invisible when CGMs published as PDF

[AH_12210884]

Hello Community

It is our industries requierement to add a caption to each illustration, to give information about projekt number etc.

This caption is invisible when the CGM files are published as PDF (screenshot: "pdf from illustrate", compare to screenshot: "cgm in illustrate").
The text of the caption can be found and located through the search function in the PDF but it can not be made visible.

My workaround is to create the files in Creo Illustrate and save them as CGM - then open them in Isodraw only to save them as CGM again. 

With this extra step the caption stays visible in the PDF (screenshot: "pdf from isodraw").

It seems that Creo Illustrate marks the Caption as metadata, so that is not to meant to be seen.

Callouts always work fine, btw.

I tried several softwares to create the PDFs, so the issue has to be somewhere in Creo Illustrate itself.

I am using Creo Illustrate 11 and Isodraw 7.4.

Any idea how to solve this is very appreciated.

Kind regards

[agarland]

Can you clarify what figure type you are publishing from 3D or 2D?

From your screenshots it looks like a 2D figure.

[AH_12210884]

Hello Agarland

You are correct, I publish from 2D.

[agarland]

I am unable to reproduce the issue here, when I publish to PDF from a 2D figure in illustrate I can still see the caption.

I would recommend contacting tech support to log a case so this can be investigated properly.

Thanks

Adrian

[AH_12210884]

Hi Adrian

Thanks for checking. You probably use the function "save figure as image file" and choose pdf in the next step?

Because for us it is important not to keep the files in vector format, so I save the figure as "illustration file" and choose cgm.

Publishing these files as pdf requires the additional step of opening the cgm in isodraw and overwriting it, to have the caption visible.

We tried alternative pdf publishing software but have no access to the abortext publishing engine.

What I find peculiar is that the callouts never cause any issues, so I wonder how these two text items differ.

Do you have any idea?

Thanks in advance