Wipeout's in PDF Print All Black

[amiller.113952]

I am having problems with Printing pdf that i have made form a AutoCAD.
I use the "wipeout" command. when I make the pdf it looks fine.
But when it prints out the area with wipeout around them area black!

What do I do?

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[Opie]

Have you checked out the 'Similar Threads' section found at the bottom of this page?

This thread, "Wipeouts in PDF print as Black" may help.

[robert.1.hall72202]

I have found that older versions of adobe reader tend to show the
drawings appropriately. Anyone with 5.0 instead of the current release
can view and print the wipeouts correctly.

My office findings, maybe a myth?

[bhaugi]

I tried looking through the posts and related topics here and ultimately tested creating an EPS file and running through distiller to get PDF. That printed correctly. Same file printed directly to PDF plots with the wipeouts black. That tells me it's an Adobe bug.

Just one more thing to have do an extra step that shouldn't be needed, boy I have a lot of those every day.

Using Vanilla AutoCAD R2006, Adobe Standard 6.0

[rkmcswain]

I am having problems with Printing pdf that i have made form a AutoCAD.
I use the "wipeout" command. when I make the pdf it looks fine.
But when it prints out the area with wipeout around them area black!

What do I do?

What PDF driver are you using?
Can you use DWF instead?
You can print to DWF, then open that and print to PDF

[bhaugi]

What PDF driver are you using?
Can you use DWF instead?
You can print to DWF, then open that and print to PDF

I'm using the Adobe Acrobat Standard 6.0 printer driver here. DWF not an option in my case. The places I need to send PDF files require that format.

Interestingly, tried PDF995 driver and get the same result, black blobs. Leads me to believe that it's genuinly a PDF issue and by going through EPS then Distiller that the EPS output must be correctly handling the wipeout before it passes it to PDF.

Bruce

[Opie]

I'm using the Adobe Acrobat Standard 6.0 printer driver here. DWF not an option in my case. The places I need to send PDF files require that format.

Interestingly, tried PDF995 driver and get the same result, black blobs. Leads me to believe that it's genuinly a PDF issue and by going through EPS then Distiller that the EPS output must be correctly handling the wipeout before it passes it to PDF.

Bruce

I understand that about PDFs as a requirement over the DWF. I haven't been able to move our office toward the DWF format, yet. Still working on it though.

I believe what R.K. was stating is to use the DWF format to then print to PDF. Not everyone may have Distiller.

Thanks for pointing out EPS handles the Wipeouts.

[Chris.N]

alright. Dredging up an old topic cuz it's rearing it's ugly head in my face and making me want to punch the innocent monitor.....

I print to DWF just fine, it's when i print from DWF to PDF in either an Adobe PDF driver, or the CutePDF driver, it rotates the dang sheet within the paper (22x34, which is normally foreign to me), even tho the "preview" was correct! oh, and i'm using the latest Design Review release AFAIK...

[margaretl]

I am having problems with Printing pdf that i have made form a AutoCAD.
I use the "wipeout" command. when I make the pdf it looks fine.
But when it prints out the area with wipeout around them area black!

What do I do?

We had this probelm when using Adobe Distiller. If you have the full version of Adobe, install the PDF Writer off the disc. You will have to go into custom install and select it from the list. I do not know why it isn't a default option. We are using Adobe 5.0.