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Bitmaps being stretched when printing to PDF

Anonymous — Fri, 19 May 2023 20:26:24 GMT

I have a problem with bitmap images being stretched in the PDF file printed from ArchiCAD and PlotMaker.
For example, an image which should be scaled 12% gets scaled 11,916% in the horizontal direction and 12,251% in the vertical direction (as indicated in Adobe Illustrator).
Very annoying! What could be the problem?
I use ArchiCAD 9, Win XP and Adobe Acrobat PDFWriter 5.0.

Re: Bitmaps being stretched when printing to PDF

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:52:23 GMT

Could you post an example?

Re: Bitmaps being stretched when printing to PDF

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:33:36 GMT

Here is an example.
The red rectangle shows the original bounding box of the picture, which is rotated.
When I created this bounding box, two other problems occured: the image is now reflected (mirrored) around the horizontal axis, and a black rectangle is superimposed!

Re: Bitmaps being stretched when printing to PDF

Ben Odonnell — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 15:11:22 GMT

Christoffer,
What version of ArchiCAD are you using?

Re: Bitmaps being stretched when printing to PDF

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 16:16:55 GMT

Ben wrote:
Christoffer,
What version of ArchiCAD are you using?

He is using AC9

Re: Bitmaps being stretched when printing to PDF

Ben Odonnell — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 16:21:51 GMT

Woops,
Sorry, help if I read the whole thing properly

Re: Bitmaps being stretched when printing to PDF

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:48:51 GMT

I have now done some more investigations printing PDF files from PlotMaker with Acrobat Distiller, Acrobat PDFWriter and Amyuni PDF Converter. I have used transparent and non-transparent bitmaps, viewing the PDF's in Acrobat and Ilustrator.
The only satisfying PDF's turned out to be those created with Distiller and Amyuni, with non-transparent bitmaps.