thevinylgibbon Posted November 28, 2006 Share Posted November 28, 2006 I often have to convert my CAD drawings to PDF to enable me to send them to customers without CAD software. These look fine on screen but when the customer prints them out they have lots of random lines appear. I have tested printing the pdf's myself and they print fine on my plotter, the problem just seems to be with printers. I have attached a section of one of the PDF's after printing, it should be obvious which lines aren't supposed to be there. Does anyone know what might be causing this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richmondlu Posted November 28, 2006 Share Posted November 28, 2006 can't help you on the lines but maybe this will help. Import the pdf to photoshop and save as a jpg or tiff. I have never had a problem with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thevinylgibbon Posted November 29, 2006 Author Share Posted November 29, 2006 I've been given the solution on another forum. As the lines only appear on printouts rather than on screen, the problem is coming from the way that the printer receives the information from the pdf. In the print menu go to Advanced settings and check box 'print as image', this sends the PDF to the printer as a bmp image. So no need to convert the pdf's to jpg or tiff to email to the client! Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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