Display of EPS graphics in 5.4 Editor window

[thornton]

We recently upgraded to Arbortext 5.4m80 from 5.3 at our site, and the biggest source of consternation seems to be the handling of EPS graphics in the Editor window. In 5.3, Arbortext just displayed the EPS graphic's preview image, but 5.4 tries to render the PostScript on screen. This would be a good thing, except many of EPS files make use of referenced fonts (like "Symbol"), which aren't available in Arbortext's little PostScript environment, and with the fonts missing the display of these graphics on screen is poor. I'm told the same problem affects output from Arbortext's Preview command.

Have others run into this too? PTC says to incorporate the missing fonts into the EPS graphics, but that may not be feasible. I'd settle for an option to go back to the EPS preview image, like in 5.3. Any ideas for working around this problem? (Admittedly this is only an issue for screen display in the Editor; generated PDF output is fine.)

[ebenton]

If you go to the "View" menu and de-select (un-check) the "graphics" selection, all of your graphics will just display the little circle/triangle/square graphics icon. You can hover your pointer over the icon to get a tool-tip with more metadata about the graphic.

[ClayHelberg]

Hi Michael-



Not sure if this will work, since you said you can produce actual PDF
output OK, but you might want to try the instructions for updating fonts
given in help topic 22609. (Type "help 22609" on the Arbortext command
line, or search for "Configuring Fonts for Direct PDF".) The second half
of the topic gives instructions for updating fonts used in graphics.
Maybe this will help out with your screen/preview issues.



--Clay



Clay Helberg

Senior Consultant

TerraXML

[ptc-953343]

If Clay's information doesn't work, as you suggested you can always file a
bug report and request that they add YAV (yea another variable) to the
preferences to restore the previouse functionality. That will get it in
the queue, but no guarantee when that fix would be put in place.

I'd say it is a valid request, but without more users complaining it
probably won't get much priority.

..dan

> Hi Michael-
>
>
>
> Not sure if this will work, since you said you can produce actual PDF
> output OK, but you might want to try the instructions for updating fonts
> given in help topic 22609. (Type "help 22609" on the Arbortext command
> line, or search for "Configuring Fonts for Direct PDF".) The second half
> of the topic gives instructions for updating fonts used in graphics.
> Maybe this will help out with your screen/preview issues.
>
>
>
> --Clay
>
>
>
> Clay Helberg
>
> Senior Consultant
>
> TerraXML
>
>
>

[mtemple1]

Thanks for the tip guys - we hit the same issue here & were head-scratching for a while.

My vote:

set epspreview = tiffheader

should be the default

[NancyB]

We have the opposite issue: the graphics display okay on screen but not in the pdf (generally these are flow chart svgs). So far, PTC hasn't been able to reproduce the issue.

Another issue we're having is during the compose to pdf, several svgs result in "exploding" eps files of many gigabytes. Any idea why that might be happening?

[thornton]

We got a further reply from PTC on this, and it turns out there is an environment variable to control this. Setting APTEPSUSEPREVIEWS to "yes" does the trick.

Thanks to everyone for the replies.