PDf woes -anyone seen this and know what to do about it

Arbanax · September 2010

HI all

Has anyone seen this before? Just to say I am printing to PDF using Bullzip pdf as per Ralf's suggestion and so far this hasn't been a problem, so don't know why it is here? Just so you know the stone texture should continue into the room, as far as I know its a solid poly bmp fill.

Ralf · September 2010

Check the floor's properties. Did it perhaps end up on the Common sheet which doesn't get printed?

Arbanax · September 2010

No it is all on the same sheet and layer. besides which its one single Polygon. Its odd that this one area shouldn't show up when the rest of the polygon does?

I've continued to be able to print off other sections of the map but whatever I do I cannot so far make this part render out?

Ab

Ralf · September 2010

Does the polygon perhaps have no edge at all on the rendered part? CC3 cannot recognize entities whose edges are fully beyond the rendered section.

If that's the case, try to separate the polygon into smaller sections so that an edge crosses the area.

If that's not it, send the map over. I'll take a look.

Arbanax · September 2010

No I think it does have an edge Ralf, when I explode it clearly it has an outline and if I hide all layers apart form it it has a outside edge. It appears fine within CC3 and renders out the sheet effects ok as you can see, but it is itself not showing through.

Here is the FCW attached.

Ab

Ralf · September 2010

I'm stumped. I can't reproduce the problem here, sorry. Have you tried with a different pdf printer?

Arbanax · September 2010

No not yet but I will do know that I know it might be the pdf printer i'm using.

will get back to you

Ab

Arbanax · September 2010

Wow just tried Dopdf can recommended through life hacker and it not only solved the problem its a really fast printer compared to the two I've been using previously. Seriously little wait and it outputted that room as it should be. Glad we tracked the problem down, thanks Ralf.

Ab

Ralf · September 2010

Lol... I just tried out DoPDF to see how it works, and guess what? The error you describe happens now for me. I guess everybody has to find the pdf printer that works for their individual system. It's fast though, I agree.

Arbanax · September 2010

LOL that is weird but I didn't realise that a different pdf printer would have so many different effects. I think this PDF printer might be faster as it doesn't use ghostscript or .net stuff. But its all a moot point of it still doesn't render the drawing out as you'd want.

Thanks again Ralf.

Ab

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