topic Re: pdf eating text in Documentation

pdf eating text

Anonymous — Fri, 19 May 2023 14:00:00 GMT

I have small set of working drawings. Floor plan; elevations; site plan etc. I have sent them to pdf A1, A2, A3. A1 and A3 which contain the floor plan and the site plan and electrical plan are fine, but A2 (elevations, section and details) is being printed without text. However if I look at the A2 layout in the layout book I can see all the text.
The realy weird thing is that it is eating the text out of my titleblock too and that prints fine on the other layouts
Any suggestions.
Jo

Re: pdf eating text

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 03:22:48 GMT

joPlan wrote:
The realy weird thing is that it is eating the text out of my titleblock too and that prints fine on the other layouts
Any suggestions.
Jo

Well it must be really hungry then?

For that drawing is the correct pen set selected?
What version/sys are you on?

Now off to the fireworks.

Re: pdf eating text

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 04:44:33 GMT

Obviously famished.

Not the pen set. I tried changing it. version 13.0.0 build 3259 on windows 7 - 64 bit. It sends to the plotter with text on all sheets happily, just not the pdf. Running adobe v9

Re: pdf eating text

Erika Epstein — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:15:03 GMT

I've had this happen on sheets that are full of text, like a title sheet with all the legends, irregardless of Platform and printer. My work-around has been to print that sheet separately.

I've suspected it's related to some fonts, but not been able to reliably reproduce the problem.

Re: pdf eating text

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:45:46 GMT

Thanks for your help. I will try that.

Re: pdf eating text

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:30:10 GMT

I have the same problem big times. I am convinced is a conflict with AC it happened after the last AC upgrade. Teh old files print OK only the new ones do not

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=172137&highlight=#172137

"Huh. An when I believed all is swell it stars again (had this issue some years ago) the job that just a weeks ago plotted perfectly is full of blank and partially blank pdfs in layouts

PDF created from Word 2008 with save as PDF selected printed Acrobat 8 and placed with place drawing command
– I have tried other printers same result
- I tried placing the pdfs with Adobe Reader 9
- I have tried creating the pdfs using Acrobat 8 printer

The job is a firehouse with 100 layouts and hundreds of pdfs so copy paste a screen capture is a nightmare

AC 13 built 3600 MACtel 10.6 MacBook Pro 2010 HP1050C plus

Re: pdf eating text

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:47:03 GMT

I have just noticed that all the views affected are bolded in the drawings manager. Does anyone know what that indicates?

Re: pdf eating text

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:00:48 GMT

"Adalbert Albu"
http://www.pdf995.com/
lec

Re: pdf eating text

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:09:38 GMT

I use a program call cute pdf for other media and quite like it but it seems to go to adobe automaticly. Is there a way to set the alternative pdf writers as the default which archicad uses or do I print to it as I do with other software??
Also finding the plot screens limiting. I know that it plots correctly but I can't get through to the print preferances page to adjust it on the roll and it is printing to the correct scale but on the wrong paper size.
my client is going to have kittens if I don't get this out soon.

Re: pdf eating text

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:40:01 GMT

joPlan wrote:
I use a program call cute pdf for other media and quite like it but it seems to go to adobe automaticly. Is there a way to set the alternative pdf writers as the default which archicad uses or do I print to it as I do with other software??

Not sure If your asking about pdf995, but it is set up to be a "printer" of sorts, (but not really). But you don't "plot" to it, you "print" to it.
In other words, you tell your file/etc to "print" to pdf995, which then creates the pdf in whatever folder you set, then send that to a real printer.
PDF995 is a very simple process actually.
It's been a couple yrs now, but that is how it works if I remember right.
It's NOT a save-as file-type kinda of dialog.
lec

Re: pdf eating text

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 05:26:00 GMT

YES it works to print to an alternate pdf writer. It is a shame not to be able to change the pdf writer defaults from Adobe to the Cute writer. The 'print' to method is a little convoluted. I guess I will figure out how to do it quicker. Thank you all for all your help.
Jo 🙂

Re: pdf eating text

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:53:05 GMT

Thanks Lec
it is unfortunate http://www.pdf995.com/ does nor support the MAC

Re: pdf eating text

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:13:01 GMT

joPlan wrote:
I have just noticed that all the views affected are bolded in the drawings manager. Does anyone know what that indicates?

Bolding in the Drawing Manager means that those are the Drawings placed on the currently visible Layout.

Re: pdf eating text

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:33:30 GMT

Muchto my embarrsment I figured that out.

Re: pdf eating text

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:24:41 GMT

If text goes missing from a layout when a PDF is generated from the publisher, refer to the following link:

http://www.archicadwiki.com/Bugs/Text%20missing%20in%20PDF

It has helped more than one client.

Re: pdf eating text

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:01:20 GMT

Adalbert wrote:
Thanks Lec
it is unfortunate http://www.pdf995.com/ does nor support the MAC

Sorry about that.
lec

Re: pdf eating text

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:09:27 GMT

GRAFISOFT SENT THIS BUT IT MAKES THE PDF HUGE!!!

Please find the following resolution for your problem.
Subject: pdf not printing text
Resolution: http://www.archicadwiki.com/Bugs/Text%20missing%20in%20PDF
Should you wish to add more information please log into the Graphisoft Support Center and add a new Note to this ticket.

Regards,
Graphisoft Support Team

Re: pdf eating text

Barry Kelly — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:28:45 GMT

Sorry to come in on this a bit late Jo but what font are you using?
I have had trouble with particular fonts in the past.
Swapping for another usually works (Arial seems to work all the time).
Also are you PC or Mac?
Barry.

Re: pdf eating text

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:59:37 GMT

It was a scogin font. I didn't realy want to change as I am still importing a lot of stuff and that has been the standard font.
So with much sighing I have changed font and it has solved the problems. I think it had to do with Control C' ing text from the old application and then Cntrl V it into graphisoft. I tried the work around but it just made the files too large to be practical.

PC windows 7 64 bit Archicad 13 Also Adobe 9.
Some of the feedback said it could have been the update which upset it.

So I have changed font, stopped cntrl c copying and reset the registry to it's original value. Seems to be OK at the moment.

Re: pdf eating text

Barry Kelly — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:13:06 GMT

We had a problem with an old true type font.
It was probably about 15-20 years old.
There was something about the relationship between the characters that would mess up when publishing to a PDF in Archicad.
There is an post floating around here somewhere about it.
Found it.
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=128518&highlight=font#128518

I can't remember now if the text disappeared or just converted the characters to boxes.

Anyway I had the font resaved with a font editor (Trans Type Pro) with the help of someone that had this program and this did the trick.
Reset whatever was wrong with it and now it works like a charm.

You can (or could a couple of years ago) download a demo of the program to test if it works but it will add a logo to some of the text characters so it is not usable unless you purchase the program.

Barry.