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Print Error: transparent fills come out chequered

Anonymous — Fri, 19 May 2023 20:12:28 GMT

Hi,

I have the following issue: all of my transparent fills (e.g. "% 75 SOLID FILLS") are printing with a chequered or pixelated pattern.

% 100 solid fills are printing correctly, i.e. completely solidly. The issue is only with fills that have some % of transparency.

This problem popped up suddenly, I was printing the same fills from the same file previously without problems.

The problem occurs both when printing to PDF with the Adobe PDF driver as well as when printing onto paper with a physical printer.

Any ideas? Thank you!

Re: Print Error: transparent fills come out chequered

Barry Kelly — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 02:14:39 GMT

I have never had much luck with % fills and printing to an external PDF convertor.
Publishing a PDF (uses the built in PDF convertor) has never been an issue for % fills - for me at least.

Barry.

Re: Print Error: transparent fills come out chequered

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 16:03:09 GMT

"Barry Kelly" wrote:
I have never had much luck with % fills and printing to an external PDF convertor.
Publishing a PDF (uses the built in PDF convertor) has never been an issue for % fills - for me at least.

Barry.

Thank you Barry. You´re absolutely right - the built in PDF convertor is working fine. So at at least this problem won´t affect my submissions.

Still a nuisance not to be able to print a preview from "modelspace". Whether as PDF or straight to paper.. Any other ideas?

Thank you,
Max

Re: Print Error: transparent fills come out chequered

Erwin Edel — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 14:55:03 GMT

You can save as PDF from any view. That will use the same internal PDF engine.

The fills don't look right if you use a real printer?

Re: Print Error: transparent fills come out chequered

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 23:24:12 GMT

"Erwin Edel" wrote:
You can save as PDF from any view. That will use the same internal PDF engine.

The fills don't look right if you use a real printer?

Thank you Erwin!
I never knew that function. Works perfectly.
I still have the issue when printing directly to a real printer, but this workaround works well enough for me.
Regards,
Max