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    • J Offline
      Jorgensen
      last edited by

      Hi

      I'm trying to print a PDF from Sketchup - using a PDF virtuel printer.
      I'm trying to achieve a simple, line drawing, floor plan with shaded textures.
      But it seems like there is a big cloud on front of the sun.

      If I don't use HLR the 'darkness' disapears, but the drawing looks like a bitmap drawing, and lost its the sharpness from the HLR format.

      Settings:
      Display - shaded
      No shadows
      PDF setting - use HLR

      Can anyone help ?

      Jorgensen

      sketchup pro 2016 16.1.1449 64 bit | windows 10 pro | i7-3770k @3.5 GHz | 16gb ram | gtx 780 ti / gtx 980 ti | nvidia driver 368.39

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        rhankc
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        I haven't tried to print anything directly to PDF with shadows on: I an usually trying to clean it up better to print. If I wanted to print shadows I would export to 2D (jpg) with a style I wanted and PDF the .jpg. Maybe this will help.

        Hank

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          Jorgensen
          last edited by

          Hi rhankc

          I'm trying to print without shadows, but with face style 'shaded'.

          Jorgensen

          sketchup pro 2016 16.1.1449 64 bit | windows 10 pro | i7-3770k @3.5 GHz | 16gb ram | gtx 780 ti / gtx 980 ti | nvidia driver 368.39

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            rhankc
            last edited by

            err, yeah, I see, uncheck HLR and select Ultrahigh definition aright above that..

            Hank

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              Anssi
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              When you print a vector PDF, either by clicking on the "use high-accuracy HLR" option in the Print dialog, or by exporting a PDF via the Export>2D Image function, the SU view is exported as a 2D image with vector lines and flat-colour fills. It seems to me too that no settings in the shadow settings dialog, like the light and dark sliders, or the "use sun for shading" have any effect on the darkness and colours of the generated fills. I don't know if it is a bug, or just a feature lacking...

              Anssi

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