Problem printing pdf's

I have seen a lot of issues with PDF. We use tiff files instead, we have less issues with TIFF files. I find that anything you convert a solidworks drawing to has issues including DXF. Sorry I couldnt help, maybe try TIFF files.

I usually used tif files in my last job, but here they prefer pdf.

One disadvantage of tif is that not all viewers will display more than the first page of a multi-page tif. Also, some people email you back saying they can't open the file, despite the fact that every version of windows from 95 onwards can!

I had already tried tif and it has worked fine. Another format that I used to use is cgm, as it's a vector format, but SWX doesn't seem to support it.

Do you think the issue with pdf is in the way SWX creates them, or in the reader? Maybe I'll try creating one with Cutepdf to see if it makes a difference.

Regards, John H

Make sure Your drawing is in "high quality" before You save it as pdf. I have noticed that views can be missing if it's not saved like this.

// Krister

If the resulting PDF file looks fine on screen...Then in Acrobat reader in the print dialog box click the Advanced button and check "print as image". I've had this same problem with PDFs customers have sent me and this seems to fix the problem with 'large' PDFs. BTW it does take longer for the print processing.

Hope this helps, Wormsign

I did try this (see original post) but it doesn't give crisp results.

I've just installed "Bullzip pdf" writer which seems to work fine, has more options than either SWX or Cutepdf, gives smaller file sizes (only half!!), is faster and prints perfectly.

Obviously another bit of SWX crapware.

John H

note to self : read entire post ; )

thanks for the info on Bullzip, I'll check it out.

Try PrimoPDF. It lets you print to a PDF file and for some reason it allows you to make PDFs of those giant assemblies that won't work using "Save as PDF." You can also convert when opening a drawing in View Only, which is a big plus.