printing adobe pdf from solidworks

Do you have the "Download as SoftFont" option selected?

Are you sure HollywoodHillsExpanded is not set as a font for something in you SW file? Check ALL font settings (including default fonts for notes, dimension lines, section lines, EVERYTHING). Check print headers and footers. If it's a drawing, examine the format carefully, too.

Its ok... I just deleted the font from the computer. Thanks anyway.

I'm having trouble producing a high quality image/print from my drawing though. Its not good enough quality just to print to my printer so I'm trying out printing to adobe PDF. The quality is not good though even though I have 'press quality' and 'convert draft quality views to high quality' selected.

Do you have any ideas on how I can improve the quality?

Thanks.

The print quality is only bad when a drawing view is shaded, but not with the 'hidden lines removed' setting. Can anything be done to change this?

Go into your setting and improve your image settings. There are some setting in "document properties" and I believe some in "system properties" as well. Crank them up as high as they go to see if that works, and then you can decrease them to help increase your performance if you want.

Under "File --> Page Setup"... under "Resolution and Scale"... select the "High Quality" checkbox.

SW is a bit quirky about printing shaded images. When no shaded images are present in a drawing, views are printed to PDF with vector entities, which makes for very clean views that have high resolution and can be zoomed in on without loss of resolution. If a shaded view is present, everything is printed with pixels and gets hazy.

i've figured out how to do it... print to adobe pdf, select 'press quality' and 'convert draft to high quality' but then go into PAGE SETUP and select 'high quality'.

Don't speak too fast... Have you seen the much poorer quality SW2006 produces compared to previous versions?

I just finished a message to my VAR pointing out a minimum of seven issues with SW2006 creating PDF files. Line weights are one of the biggest issues. But there are others such as not printing headers/footers. There are significant problems in my opinion. Enough so that I don't think I will be using "save as PDF" anymore, until its fixed...

I usually do not use the "Save As PDF". I get better results with Adobe Distiller or PDF995.

Looks like I will be doing the same. I really had no major problems with "save as PDF" prior to SW2006. It was quick and easy to use, which I liked. And it produced very good quality PDFs.

I'm talking about 'print to pdf' not 'save as pdf'. Gives better quality results.