When printing vector PDF:s from PDF-XChange Viewer the printed line widths don't apper to be correct. See attached scan of three pages side by side.
First is one from AutoCAD directly for reference, second from Adobe Reader and last from PDF-XCV.
While it does make the page often more readable, it also makes making copies harder because you have to crank the contrast up for the light lines to appear.
Also it's often needed to have the line widths correct.
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Printed line width not OK
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Re: Printed line width not OK
Can you advise the version of the viewer?
And please send a report via Help -> Report a problem and attach you original PDF document.
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And please send a report via Help -> Report a problem and attach you original PDF document.
Thanks
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Re: Printed line width not OK
Ok, sent the problem report 19.2.09. Did my report and files give any clue to what the problem is?Ivan - Tracker Software wrote:Can you advise the version of the viewer?
And please send a report via Help -> Report a problem and attach you original PDF document.
Thanks
For others, the problem seems to only consern when printing PDF:s created with PDFCreator printer driver. I've not tried with other PDF printer drivers, but tested Openoffice PDF and AutoCAD DWG-to-PDF printing.
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Re: Printed line width not OK
Did you check latest build (41.2) of the viewer ?
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Re: Printed line width not OK
Tested build 41.2. Lines print at 80% of the width. Printed with scaling set to "none". See attached file.Ivan - Tracker Software wrote:Did you check latest build (41.2) of the viewer ?
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Re: Printed line width not OK
Please try another printer, not virtual based on GhostScript.
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Re: Printed line width not OK
Tried different printers, paper and virtual. The error (~80% line width) only seems to appear with postscript (PS3) printers.Ivan - Tracker Software wrote:Please try another printer, not virtual based on GhostScript.
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Re: Printed line width not OK
More problems printing to postscript printer, see attached file.
Upper part of the picture printed with pcl6-drivers, lower with ps-drivers (black frame around picture). Result is the same on multiple printers using postscript drivers and with virtual printers based on ghostscript.
PDF created with Adobe software, unfortunately I cannot send it.
Upper part of the picture printed with pcl6-drivers, lower with ps-drivers (black frame around picture). Result is the same on multiple printers using postscript drivers and with virtual printers based on ghostscript.
PDF created with Adobe software, unfortunately I cannot send it.
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Re: Printed line width not OK
Tried build 41.3. Problem still there.
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Re: Printed line width not OK
For now I can do nothing: viewer doesn't make any differences depends of driver uses - PS, PCL or any else.
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Re: Printed line width not OK
This seems to be quite an interesting problem. I can reproduce this with quite a number of different computers and what seems to connect them all is using either postscript or ghostscript drivers/virtual printers.Ivan - Tracker Software wrote:For now I can do nothing: viewer doesn't make any differences depends of driver uses - PS, PCL or any else.
Printing with PCL driver, XPS document writer or Autodesk DWF produces correct output.
Most of the time this isn't a problem, but there are few cases where it is. Hope this solves sometime in the future.
btw. thank you for a great product!