Hugo Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 In another topic I spoke about my findings with Title Blocks, but now I want to share my experience with Layout. It's a pity ADS is not able to make Layout a rock solid program, because I want to use it, actually we should use it in a professional work flow. As long as we can't relay on Layout, it's useless. Sorry... again... Here you can see (see attach) what the results are after Print to PDF, save image to PDF, save image as PNG I feel getting tired to see a wonderful 3D modeler and realize I can only produce images directly from the modeler or with Maxwell. This means in most occasions I have to export a DWG file, but without any smart export at all. Al entities are on 1 layer... etc... Actually there is no control in the work flow anymore, and it cost me huge amount of time to get my work done. It's not possible. I really want to be positive, but it's to difficult. In my opinion ADS should focus on make the suite (modeler+Layout) predictable BEFORE adding new features. At the moment I feel to capitulate and stop using the suite for serious work flow. Modeling OK, but that's all. Output is just to poor to take the suite serious for technical drawing. But I believe it has to work!! Hopefully it will change in the near future. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugo Posted February 7, 2016 Author Share Posted February 7, 2016 Here the are the results: see Attach. 1517 1B printed.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Dear Hugo, Sorry you are having trouble. If you have a file that is not printing properly, please email the .FMZ AND the .FML file to support@formz.com so we can see what might be causing this issue and try to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugo Posted February 7, 2016 Author Share Posted February 7, 2016 just send the file: 1517 Layout to Print.zip to support@.... It doesn't make a difference which file, all of them are not good. By the way, I use a Ricoh Aficio MP C2500 color laserprinter A3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Hi Hugo, Ok, thanks for sending your files. We are reproducing a very subtle shift of your text by about a millimeter when printing, and obviously this should not happen. Thanks for bringing this to our attention, we will get this corrected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugo Posted February 8, 2016 Author Share Posted February 8, 2016 It's not subtle. The text block in the middle with all rooms in it, is moving up at least 30 mm. Today I downloaded and installed again the latest Ricoh driver software version 4.0. Makes no difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Hmm, that text block is not moving for us: 1517.pdf We will test further with different systems to see if we can find a cause for that. Thanks again for your report. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugo Posted February 8, 2016 Author Share Posted February 8, 2016 The strange thing is also, notes are moving random after that print option. Look at the title block text in my 1517 1B printed.PDF. If the note stay in place in your test, well the text in the title block doesn't. Not in your test nor in mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Hi Hugo, Yes, we do see that there is a very tiny shift, and this can apparently occur when using text that is on more than one line. If you edit your text so that each string is only one line long then you should be able to avoid this shifting. Alternately, if you uncheck the Vector Output option, the the multi line text should also be ok (but most likely you want the vector output option enabled). Thanks again for bringing this to our attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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