Missing Text in DWF file

[James.Head]

I've started to use the Publish facility in Autocad 2004 to create DWF files for viewing, using the free DWF express viewer, on our factory floor.

I had a problem with the last set of drawings where some text objects in the autocad drawing were not included in the DWF file. I've checked for the obvious, text on non-printing layers but can't find anything strikingly wrong. The text objects are single line text but other single line text in the same drawings are included in the DWF okay.

Anybody have any other ideas of what to check?

Thanks, James.

[Mike.Perry]

Hi

Am I correct in understanding that this is just an issue/problem on a certain set of drawing files? ie Does not occur on all drawing files outputted to DWF format.

What happens if you Plot these (problem) drawings from within AutoCAD? Is all Text correct on output?

Have you compared a good drawing file to a bad drawing file?

Can you post here a bad drawing file?

Have a good one, Mike

[James.Head]

Hi Mike,

The problems seem to occur only on a certain set of files. All the new drawings that I've created are okay but as I've gone back through past drawings I've found some that are okay but others that are not. Normal plotting of these files are okay. I've attached some examples.

Since I posted the original thread I've found that on the problem drawings, resizing the text will make a difference. The text on the original problem drawing was okay plotting on paper, and okay in Model tab, but would not be included in the DWF file. Resizing it down works okay. I'm guessing that for publishing DWF files Autocad is taking the extents of our drawings from the line drawn borders and that the text height pushes part of the text object outside these extents; that's why it's getting dropped. In the plot preview and plot though, if I choose extents or if a draw a window around the line borders then there is no problem with the text being included in the plot output. Seems strange that the behaviour should be different between a normal plot and a publish.

Looks like I'm going to have to go through all the old drawings as and when they are needed and resize the text near the edges.

[Mike.Perry]

Hi

Have you tried creating a Page Setup for DWF creation and applying that to all drawings?

Have you set-up the same Paper Size(s) within your DWF output device as you use within your printing output device(s)?

Personally I won't plot using "Extents", we use to here but changed our methods about 4 years ago; one of the reasons we changed is given in the following Technical Document on the Autodesk web site under the Knowledge Base section -

ID: TS1307 - Round-off error when plotting drawing to extents (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/item?siteID=123112&id=2895234&linkID=2475323)

The following thread might be worth a read -

Is there any replacement for BatchPlot in Autocad 04 and 05? (http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=4846&page=1&pp=10&highlight=publish)

Have a good one, Mike

[Mike.Perry]

Hi

I've just downloaded and installed the latest DWF Viewer from the Autodesk web site -

Autodesk DWF Viewer (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=2787358)

When I open "problem drawing.dwf" within this Viewer I can *not* see any missing Text when compared with "problem drawing.dwg".

Have a good one, Mike

[James.Head]

Hi,

The problem text is the text "43VJ53Q" that appears to the right of "MODEL" in the top left corner. I have the latest copy of the DWF viewer installed; I updated my copy yesterday.

Using a standard page setup or the page setup in the drawing would probably be a little hit and miss with these older drawings. Unfortuneately they are a bit of a mess; all drawn to different scales, different off-sets, and they vary as to whether they were saved after a plot or not. No-one before me used the page setup or saved it and they are all in model space and not layout.

I'll probably have to spend a little time on each of these drawings doing the page setup before creating the DWF file, or look at creating a layout for each of them.

[Mike.Perry]

Hi

Doh! that bit of text....

Using the new Autodesk DWF Writer (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=3429575) I just created a new DWF file -

<MissingText_ProblemDrawing_DWFWriter.dwf> (refer to attached) from drawing file "problem drawing".

Everything appears ok! to me (Better check as what do I know).

If you're going to spend anytime on those drawings I would personally recommend that you go down the Layout route + create appropriate Page Setups for the Layout(s).

Have a good one, Mike

[James.Head]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the reply and help. I hadn't realised there was a separate DWF writer available other than the Publish command in Autocad. The DWF writer works okay, but it's strange that the Publish in Autocad produces different results!

I should only have to worry about the old drawings as we've drawn up some standard templates now, and I'm going to "persuede" people that layouts are a good idea.

Cheers.

James.

[rtjones]

I seem to have the same problem. If I produce a dwf with the publish command I am missing text from my title block. However, if I use the plot command and select the DWF6_eplot as the plotter the DWF looks fine.

I frequently produce multipage DWF's and it is quite cumbersome to produce the files one at a time and then add them to one of the files to make a multipage file. Is there a way to fix the publish command?

Please note I am running 2005 LT on a Windows XP Pro machince.

Thanks

Rich