CC3+ White areas print as black in B&W vectors

Madcat

Made a map using the B&W vector style with the intention of printing it out and colouring by hand, but in the print preview I noticed that the entire map was printing as black.

A bit of experimentation revealed that changing the background colour and the colour of the land masses from white (#15 in the default pallette) to anything else made that object show properly (albeit with the new colour rather than white), however the white parts on symbols still come out black. I have tested this on several different maps and map styles and the results are consistent.

When exporting to a bitmap image file whites display correctly, the bug only occurs when running the print wizard. I've printed to PDF to see if it was just a graphical bug, but the PDF was also showing whites as black. I haven't sent a job to my physical printer because I don't feel like throwing a page of toner away.

I haven't changed any application wide defaults in CC, so I'm really at a loss here.

Running CC3+ 3.66 with CD3+ and DD3+ installed too. Windows 7x64, 6GB of RAM, Core i7 CPU, GTX 650.

Ralf

When going through the Print Wizard, on Step 7, click the "Advanced" button and make sure under "Color printing" the "Print Colors" option is checked. It's probably set to "Print White Things black."

Madcat

Thank you. I feel a bit daft, should have checked that myself.

Ralf

No, that's actually something we should fix here. This should not be the default option, it's an old leftover from CAD times when computer drawings used to have white lines on a black/dark background.

Thanks for making us aware of it!