Problem with printing in pdf color fills

[wendy_neverland]

Good morning everyone from rainy north Greece! 

I am using AC 25 and I am having a problem printing color fills. 

I attach a pdf with my fills descriptions and a printscreen of how I see it on screen and how I wanted it to be.

I cannot seem to be able to get rid of the dots. Is this possible?

I have the paint glossy white on my walls, I have shadows which are not solid obviously and then I have applied some color fills with 25% color and background on transparent. I figured the problem was the fill so I created the material with the color I wanted and still getting the same problem. Shouldn't that color be solid? and then have the problem only with the shadows?

Is it a printer problem? I use the cute pdf writer or is it a fill problem?

Appreciate any help! 

Operating system used: Windows 10

[Barry Kelly · Accepted solution]

First thing I would try is to publish using the built in PDF converter (i.e. save to PDF in publisher settings).

The internal PDF converter handles fills and textures better than some external converters.

Also if this is an elevation with the 'texture' option on, that can cause a problem with PDF created from these.

The file can become quite heavy (slow) and I have had problems where they just don't print.

Barry.

[wendy_neverland]

I see! I will try the built in converter thank you! 

As far as the elevation yes it has the texture option on. If not how else could I print in color? Fills are not easy and textures are impossible

[Barry Kelly]

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@wendy_neverland wrote:

As far as the elevation yes it has the texture option on. If not how else could I print in color? Fills are not easy and textures are impossible

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You can use 'surface colour' in the elevation settings and that will print fine (and you can turn on vectorial hatching for a bit of extra material representation).

I have just seen and heard of problems when using the 'textures surface' in elevations.

They look fine on screen but can cause problems with PDFs.

Barry.

[Lingwisyer]

Transparent fills in AC are fake, and hence you get this effect with a lot of 3rd party PDF plotters. Unsure how this interacts with Textures in elevation.

[wendy_neverland]

Both texture and color fill print out fine if I do not use my cute pdf converter! Why didn't I think that? Thank you very much! 

Microsoft pdf converter works ok but I could not find the Archicad built in converter unless you were talking about the save as option where I cannot choose the area I want to print and the scale. 

[Lingwisyer]

You can either Save-As from a Layout as PDF, or use the Publisher to create a set or selection of Layouts as PDF.

Regarding PDFing a selection, you can click on "Document Options..." and change it to Marquee

Ling.

[wendy_neverland]

Great thank you! 

For every day plans I send to clients I usually print directly from the plan so this is taking more time but in this case I have to do it! Thanks again! Have a great day! 

[wendy_neverland]

Hello again! I wanted firstly to really really thank you for the Publish solution! I used to make all my pdfs manually meaning changing every time the paper size!! It is amazing! 
Now that I am using it I found this problem, I attach a pic left side is the pdf from the publish option and left is the screen I see. How this wooden area is created? and the grey area outside of my building? is it two materials collapsing?

Thank you in advance! And really thank you again!