Measurment text in black area

[TIG]

Sketchup menu > Window > Preferences > OpenGL ...

[robertWan]

Of course, I changed OpenGL in SU. No effects.

Robert

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[Dave R]

Did you try turning off Hardware Acceleration?

[robertWan]

Yes. All combinations.

Robert

[kaas]

just for testing: have you tried a different pdf-printer like bullzip? Also, the object behind the text wouldn't have opacity applied to it? If so, did you try different opacity settings in the style?

[TIG]

I can print HLR PDFs using PDF995, without any graphic glitches...
So it is probably either an issue with your PDF-maker or a Graphics Card issue ?

[robertWan]

I've noticed that it only happens with measurements which are aligned to dimension line.

Robert

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[TIG]

Yes !

A break through...

I too confirm that only if the dim-text is 'aligned', then the HLR PDF shows a black rectangle.
Without the HLR setting they all print OK !

[robertWan]

So it is a bug? In SU2014 same.
How is it in SU2015?

Robert

[Dave R]

I don't see it in 2015.

[TIG]

I see it in v2015.

[Dave R]

I wonder why I don't have any issue on my machine with this.

[Charlie__V]

@tig said:

I see it in v2015.

+1
Camera set to Parallel Projection....default views (top/front/right..etc) gives expected results.
Perspective views not so much.

Charlie
SUv15
MS Win7 64 Bit

[kaas]

@dave r said:

I wonder why I don't have any issue on my machine with this.

maybe its due to different gfx cards / gfx card settings / OS versions / ...?

[Charlie__V]

@dave r said:

I wonder why I don't have any issue on my machine with this.

Could still be Print Driver........I am using Adobe Acrobat ProXI.

Charlie

[Dave R]

@unknownuser said:

@dave r said:

I wonder why I don't have any issue on my machine with this.

Could still be Print Driver........I am using Adobe Acrobat ProXI.

Charlie

So maybe the issue is more with print drivers? I don't have a printer connected to my PC and the default "printer" is set as One Note.

[TIG]

I get it when using PDF995, which I think uses some 'ghostscript' arcanery...

[Charlie__V]

@dave r said:

@unknownuser said:

@dave r said:

I wonder why I don't have any issue on my machine with this.

Could still be Print Driver........I am using Adobe Acrobat ProXI.

Charlie

So maybe the issue is more with print drivers? I don't have a printer connected to my PC and the default "printer" is set as One Note.

My WAG......Printing w/HLR yields a partially vector based file....no? (lines are vector...& text appears to be raster....to me anyway)

I tested this using windows XPS writer.......which I am pretty sure saves as a .jpg or similar image file. (all raster)
I do not have any other print driver installed to test further.

Charlie

PS:
XPS Writer does not black out the text.

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[Charlie__V]

Just following up........I looked to the Trimble SU........Knowledge center.......(search) HLR.

As I suspected.......the HLR print (output) option is vector based output.

So...somewhere......somehow.....the black dimension boxes are cause/effect of......??

SU dimension text fails to convert/display as vector?

User "success" in printing to HLR (w/o blacked out dimension text) .....most likely does not contain any vector based attributes. (IOW: print driver is really printing as .jpg/or other "image" file)

I do not have an answer/solution.......but to say the HLR print option......when used with a vector capable print driver.......will unfortunately create the blacked out text/dims. as depicted above.

Best,
C

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