Text Issues

[cdchristian]

When plotting our sheets, we are finding that we are having a number of text issues. For instance, text will stick out beyond the boundary lines of legend boxes or overlap itself causing it to be illegible. It appears fine on the screen, and we have tried adjusting the text boxes, etc to accomodate the difference. Any suggestions on what might be wrong?

[The Sweg]

Are you plotting to DWF or PDF first, and then sending to plotter? Or just printing directly to plotter?

[cdchristian]

We are plotting PDFs

[jspartz]

When you open the PDF does it look wrong? It's probably a postscript font embedding issue. What PDF program/printer are you using?

[cdchristian]

When you open the PDF does it look wrong? It's probably a postscript font embedding issue. What PDF program/printer are you using?


We're using the Revit PDF writer. I attached a snapshot of where we are having the problems.

[The Sweg]

The pic inside the .doc is too small to see anything on my 'puter, however, I would use CutePDF or any other free PDF printer. I've only had problems with Revit's PDF writer.

[cdchristian]

I will check into it. Thanks for the suggestion!

[twiceroadsfool]

We have had a big issue with Revit > PDF > plotter. For starters, go in to Acrobat Pro and using the text edit tool, verify that the text is actually the same Font type that it was in Revit. Our's starts out as Arial, but through Cute PDF Writer it ends up being Helvetica in Adobe.

We also discovered that in the advanced options for the PDF writer, under postscript options, that there was an issue with our PostScript Language Level, but i think this was a local issue here, and not everywhere else...

Also, make sure in your advanced options that for TT fonts, its set to Download as SoftFont, and not Replace with Device Font...

[jspartz]

Try PDFCreator. You can search for it and download it at Sourceforge.org. It's free. Works better than Adobe PDF or Acrobat Distiller most of the time.