Embedded xls appear as black rectangle in pdf?

[JBlackhole]

To all,

When printing a mathCAD document to PDF (using PDF creator) all embededd excel spreadshees are not printed properly. All I get is a black rectangle where the xls is. Any suggestion(s) or work around?

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Update

For some reason one always find something (possibly) relevant after posting the question !! Found a thread giving the following 2 links but cannot access them

http://collab.mathsoft.com/read?115413,11e#115413

http://collab.mathsoft.com/read?112852,99e#112852

Any suggestion on how to access them?

Thanks

Regards

JXB

[RichardJ]

Those links are permanently dead.

Use a different printer driver. Cutepdf is free and has solved problems like this in the past.

[VladimirN]

Can you attach your Mathcad worksheet to the message?

[JBlackhole]

problem raised in this thread

http://communities.ptc.com/message/54700#54700

[VladimirN]

I don't see any problem by using Acrobat PDF Reader 10.1.3 and Mathcad 15 M010. What version of Mathcad are you using?

[JBlackhole]

v14

[VladimirN]

There is a chance to upgrade your version?

[JBlackhole]

requested IT to look into Premium 2.0 but the customer wants everything in v14

Also did the following test

1. Print to an Microsoft xps file

2. open xps fiel and then print to a pdf

Step 1 seems to print the embedded xls fine. Only problem is that the file is very large. in my case 62Mb (the mcad is 8.5Mb)

[MikeArmstrong]

I had the exact same problem and use to use Acrobat to edit the black image and remove it. Pain yes, but the only way I found of getting around it.

What version of M14 are you using?

Mike