[Solved] Transparent fills in PDF: Ugly

[Sam Karli]

For site plans I make colored/textured backgrounds (grass, trees, etc) with buildings casting (not entirely black, a bit transparent) shadows onto the backgrounds. (I make shadows rendering them with internal engine, and pasting them into the plan as fills.)

On the monitor it looks OK, but at the printed PDF it's obviously a rastered fill, that and computers display it very slowly.

How can I make nice transparent fills in PDF?

[Sam Karli]

And a good image on the display

[Barry Kelly]

Are you Publishing as a PDF (with Archicads built in convertor) or are you Printing to an external PDF convertor?
I find they all handle fills differently.
The built in convertor works best especially with the % fills.

Barry.

[Sam Karli]

Thanks,
I tried Amyuni and PDFCreator, both having the same result, so I thought the ArchiCAD is the source of problems.
But if it's not the case, I'll give a try with other settings.

[Barry Kelly]

Sam wrote:
I tried Amyuni and PDFCreator, both having the same result...

There is the problem.
These don't play nice with Archicad fills.
Try using the Publisher to save as PDF and you will get better results.
Barry.

[Sam Karli]

Wow,
Publisher, another feature not available in ArchiCAD SE ))

But the Save as... feature under File has the same functionality and solves the problem.

Thanks again