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DukeNukem

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Stupid Adobe
« on: July 30, 2007, 01:18:54 PM »
I recently became the head of our drafting dept. (2 people), and I am in no way qualified.  Hear is an example:  I get, from time to time, an emailed set of drawings in Adobe format.  I have 'Adobe 6.0 Standard', and I havent been able to plot the drawings successfully even once!  the plot always comes out either cut in half, or outside the margins...thus useless???!!!  It happens that the former is what comes off my workstation, and the latter off my co-workers work station.  I see nothing in the print settings or in the preview that is wrong.  Every setting, and preview is perfect (in appearence) as far as i can tell.  aaahhh, I need help!
Has anyone come accross this before?
P.S. - I have two options to plot to: 1) HP designjet 500  and, 2) XEROX Sinergix 8825
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Greg B

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Re: Stupid Adobe
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2007, 01:25:49 PM »
When you open it up in the PDF reader does it say the size the sheet was created at in the lower left corner?
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Re: Stupid Adobe
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2007, 01:27:22 PM »
do you not have a "fit to page" option?
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DukeNukem

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Re: Stupid Adobe
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2007, 01:34:33 PM »
"yes" to the fit page option...and it dosnt help.
"no" i dont see a 'page size' that it was created on.
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DukeNukem

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Re: Stupid Adobe
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2007, 01:36:31 PM »
CORRECTION:: It does tell me the size it was created on. 
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Greg B

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Re: Stupid Adobe
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2007, 01:40:02 PM »
Quote from: DukeNukem on July 30, 2007, 01:36:31 PM
CORRECTION:: It does tell me the size it was created on. 

Huh...I would have thought you'd pass this bit of info on.   :wink:
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DukeNukem

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Re: Stupid Adobe
« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2007, 01:43:28 PM »
Greg,
I would have, however i just reallized that my counterpart was using Adobe 8 Reader (which did not show the requested info) instead of 6.0 Standard.
My appologies :cry:
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Keith™

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Re: Stupid Adobe
« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2007, 01:47:22 PM »
FYI .. there are some key differences in the way the free reader and the pay reader/distiller operate, particularly across different versions.
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DukeNukem

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Re: Stupid Adobe
« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2007, 01:52:37 PM »
OK.  answer this: "nobody else has EVER had a problem ploting from any Adobe product?"  I have never needed to do so untill arriving at this job.  But it seems wierd that ONLY the two computer workstations here have a problem with it.  Adobe says I have to pay $40 to talk to them.
Also, I get the same results, if I scan a dwg and create an .pdf, then try to plot it. :|
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Mark

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Re: Stupid Adobe
« Reply #9 on: July 30, 2007, 01:56:26 PM »
Try a different .pdf reader, there are some good free ones available.
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Josh Nieman

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Re: Stupid Adobe
« Reply #10 on: July 30, 2007, 01:57:33 PM »
are you sure it's the pdf reader and not your plotter?

One of our engineers here was fuming over something similar, then just found that someone had set the override-paper-size on the machine, and thus a 11x17 was printing to a 8 1/2x11
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Re: Stupid Adobe
« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2007, 02:14:02 PM »
Quote from: Mark Thomas on July 30, 2007, 01:56:26 PM
Try a different .pdf reader, there are some good free ones available.

What Mark said, or just upgrade to the latest reader version, it's free.

And Adobe sometimes does weird things for me too.
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Antisthenes

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Re: Stupid Adobe
« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2007, 02:17:16 PM »
try to open the PDF in Rhinoceros and you will get the lines out of it and set up a new page layout.   if you want
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DukeNukem

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Re: Stupid Adobe
« Reply #13 on: July 30, 2007, 02:28:45 PM »
UH...Rhinocerous?  This may sound like a dumb question, but what is it (other than a really mean animal with a horn)?
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Re: Stupid Adobe
« Reply #14 on: July 30, 2007, 02:32:53 PM »
Quote from: DukeNukem on July 30, 2007, 02:28:45 PM
UH...Rhinocerous?  This may sound like a dumb question, but what is it (other than a really mean animal with a horn)?

http://www.rhino3d.com/
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