pdf eating text

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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 🙂

[Anonymous]

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

[Laszlo Nagy]

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.

[Anonymous]

Muchto my embarrsment I figured that out.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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

Sorry about that.
lec

[Anonymous]

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

[Barry Kelly]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Barry Kelly]

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.