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Another PDF Question
« on: September 24, 2012, 08:31:33 AM »
I've encountered a problem with the PDFs that are generated from 2012 using Acroplot Pro. The only thing that has changed, AFAIK, is the version of AutoCAD and the page set-up to go with the newer CAD as the old ones don't work well. The problem is not in making the PDFs but the plotting of the PDFs. Using Adobe Reader, each individual sheet needs to be "flattened" but there isn't any 3D aspects to these files. Some of them take several minutes for this process. Many of them take up to a minute. A set of 50 drawings takes forever to plot. The file sizes are about the same as the ones generated from the older CAD.

Does anyone know why these need to be "flattened" and what I can do to eliminate this?
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Re: Another PDF Question
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2012, 11:35:45 AM »
I think flattening refers to layers and not '3D' objects. Check how many layers you have?  maybe in viewports you have a lot of unused layers turned on that it still tries to 'flatten'

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Re: Another PDF Question
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2012, 11:38:11 AM »
I've been doing some research and it does have to do with layers and possibly lines merge. Do you know how to produce a "flattened" PDF?
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Re: Another PDF Question
« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2012, 01:07:58 PM »
LINE MERGE is the culprit.  I'm not sure how you'd get around it though.  We use Bluebeam and have run into the same thing.
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Re: Another PDF Question
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2012, 01:25:49 PM »
What does Acroplot say? In the past I've found them to be responsive, especially to a common platform issue.

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Re: Another PDF Question
« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2012, 01:27:23 PM »
Matt, Line Merge is off in that PC3 by default.

Dan, I will give that a shot.
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Re: Another PDF Question
« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2012, 01:55:37 PM »
M-dub, I was hoping that was the issue as others have said the same thing. It was not. The issue may be that our old printer server cannot handle "non-flattened" PDFs.

Does anyone know how to flatten a PDF from Reader or full Acrobat?
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Re: Another PDF Question
« Reply #8 on: September 24, 2012, 02:24:50 PM »

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Re: Another PDF Question
« Reply #9 on: September 24, 2012, 02:52:07 PM »
8 Standard and I don't think it has a flatten option.
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Re: Another PDF Question
« Reply #10 on: September 24, 2012, 02:57:00 PM »
Are there any options in the "printer" preferences?
Devices and Printers > Adobe PDF, etc.?

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Re: Another PDF Question
« Reply #11 on: September 24, 2012, 03:14:12 PM »
I'll have to look into that tomorrow. I've only got Reader on this machine and need to get some production done before I leave. I did look at the AcroPlot options and there is nothing for layers.
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Re: Another PDF Question
« Reply #12 on: September 24, 2012, 04:47:13 PM »
Doh!
This may be a case of not seeing the forest for the trees. Just before I left for the day, I figured out that I could generate a "flattened" PDF from Reader by printing using the AcroPlot driver. Right now, I think my AcroPlot from AutoCAD is set-up to use AutoCAD Dwg to PDF driver. I'm thinking I can generate "flat" PDFs with publish or AcroPlot using the AcroPlot driver. Gotta wait until tomorrow to find out. Update to follow.
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Re: Another PDF Question
« Reply #13 on: September 25, 2012, 12:00:41 PM »
Could it be a printer issue?

We are having a wicked problem with AutoCAD Dwg to PDF driver when printing the PDFs directly to our Kip StarPrint 6000 sinc ewe updated the firmware in the KIP.  The KIP ends up taking a long time to print between sheets and sometimes loses the file all together and errors out.   But if we convert the  AutoCAD Dwg to PDF's to KIP PDFs (yes it has that option). then the KIPs has no problem printing them.  It spits them out lickity split. 
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Re: Another PDF Question
« Reply #14 on: September 25, 2012, 12:42:07 PM »
I thought I had this all figured out but it the output isn't as expected. I still need to fool around with it but haven't had the time to nail it down. At least I have a work around to flatten them after making them.
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