drawing fonts for pdf?

[krow72]

What is the best drawing font for pdf compatability? What font do you use? I use "font" and notice that some of my decimals disappear when I create pdf's

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krow72

 

[dr_gallup]

Do you "stroke all fonts"?

I find making PDF's directly from Pro/E more trouble than it's worth. I just make postscript files and then convert them. 100% guaranteed to look right. It's been working since they added Pro/Detail in about release 12. Ain't broke so I don't fix it.

 

[krow72]

I have not used "stroke all fonts" before but I will try it and see what it gets me. Can you run me thru your process for postscripting and then converting, I am also interested in that option as well.


Krow72

 

[dr_gallup]

You need to use "stroke_all_fonts" if you use the "font" font. There is no true type equivalent of "font" so the spacing gets screwed up in the font translation. Go figure, true type can't do a stick figure font?

Anyway, to do it my way, I have a printer configuration file "postb" that prints any size drawing to our B size laser printer and saves the postscript file:

plotter POSTSCRIPT
button_name POSTB
button_help Plots B size output to HP 8000
plot_drawing_format YES default
plot_segmented NO default
plot_roll_media NO default
plot_handshake NO default
plot_label NO default
create_separate_files NO default
plot_with_panzoom YES default
rotate_plotting NO default
allow_file_naming YES
plot_name YES
interface_quality 3 default
plot_destination file_and_printer default
plotter_command windows_print_manager \\GVLPRINT\GVL28124
pen_table_file G:\solid\drw_files\postscript20.pnt
plot_sheets all default
paper_size_allowed B A
paper_size B default
plot_clip NO default
plot_area NO default
!landscape_postscript_print yes default
plot_access create

I call it from a mapkey that turns off all datums & does a zoom all first. I manually send the .ps file to Acrobat distiller's "in" folder but you could send it there automatically with a plot_file_dir setting. Distiller watches the 'in" folder and automatically creates the PDF file in it's "out" folder. You can also use Ghost Script or dozens of other free PDF creators.