topic Re: Marquee showing when making PDFs in Modeling

Marquee showing when making PDFs

Anonymous — Fri, 28 May 2004 13:29:09 GMT

In ArchiCAD, I marquee an area to print, or in this case, make a PDF. Most often the marquee lines show in the PDF. Sometimes 2 lines, sometimes 3... rarely all 4. Anyone know the remedy? Thanks.

Re: Marquee showing when making PDFs

Djordje — Fri, 28 May 2004 18:08:14 GMT

Powdered wrote:
In ArchiCAD, I marquee an area to print, or in this case, make a PDF. Most often the marquee lines show in the PDF. Sometimes 2 lines, sometimes 3... rarely all 4. Anyone know the remedy? Thanks.

Margins? Scaling? Centered output?

Re: Marquee showing when making PDFs

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 12:22:16 GMT

Not sure about margins. Scaling down to fit on 8.5x11. Centered output, yes. Marqueed area only. I've had this happen on plots as well... Any ideas? I am thinking XP or video card.

Re: Marquee showing when making PDFs

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 02:31:06 GMT

What pdf driver are you using to create the pdf? I've never seen this happen before. A little more detail would be helpful.

Thanks,

Re: Marquee showing when making PDFs

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 12:15:32 GMT

Adobe PS Acrobat Distiller.

Thanks

Re: Marquee showing when making PDFs

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 14:04:32 GMT

If you are using Distiller then I assume you are first creating a Postscript file. This could be the problem; Postscript output often includes everything whereas PDF only includes what would normally be printed. For example, in PlotMaker 2.x (maybe in 3.x also) saving a layout as Postscript includes drawings that are outside the printable area.

If so, how are you generating the EPS files?

Re: Marquee showing when making PDFs

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 14:41:24 GMT

I marquee an area to print, set scale, etc. then go to File/Print and select Acrobat Distiller as my virtual printer. Then Acrobat Reader pops up with PDF of area selected.

This error occurs only in ArchiCAD. In Plotmaker, we typically output entire sheets as PDFs.

Chris

Re: Marquee showing when making PDFs

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 15:52:04 GMT

Curious...

I haven't tried Distiller as a virtual printer. Perhaps it is producing Postscript first for PDF conversion by Distiller.

Since you have the full Acrobat why don't you try the PDF printer of theirs or the Amyuni (sp?) driver included with AC? (I assume you are on PC as this is a non-issue on Macs.)