Plotbase and Bluebeam PDF plotting issues

John

sorry forgot all about looking for the 480 today. I was too pissed at office politics n completely forgot.  Will check on MondayMonday

Wow!  A blast from the past.  I have run into this exact issue a number of years ago an a machine running PlotBase.  The problem is the layers in the CAD file are not being flattened properly.  The file explodes when you try to plot it.  The one solution I found was to open the offending file in Photoshop and then use Photoshop to convert it to a pdf or tiff and then plot it.  Other than that you'd have to educate the person creating the pdfs with Bluebeam on how to get their settings correct and make good pdfs.  They have to flatten the pdf.....otherwise the plotter software or driver will have to do it.

I spent hours on this issue.  The customer was convinced it was my machine's fault.  Ricoh was little help.  Finally I found that the common denominator was in the properties of the file and the PDF producer was Bluebeam.  Any time we hit a pdf created with this software the file wouldn't print.

If printing a Bluebeam PDF from the Windows driver select the advanced tab when you go to print it and then select "print as image" this will get it to print properly but it will spool a little longer. Otherwise you need to flatten it with a conversion software I recommend KIP Switch it is a free download on KIPs website.

If i recall, we "fixed" this issue by using an HPGL driver. 

Bluebeam also has a free viewer you can download it is called Bluebeam Vu.

We are having a similar issue from .pdf's that are sent to one of our engineering companies from some architects.  Some files print fine and others don't. Asking the customer what his clients use for .pdf ing got us no where.  If they are using Adobe Acrobat, is there is a select for "print as image"?

yes, there is a "Print as Image" in Acrobat as well.

Got the Bluebeam issue resolved with Plotworks.

New question!

Does anyone know why I cannot get the Webprint tool to come up when I enter the ip address/webprint?

I have called Ricoh and they said to make sure the Tiff/GL Filter card is installed in the machine, which it is, and then it should work.

Doesn't work.

Any ideas????

Haven't had this many questions about a wide format in years.

Thanks,

J.

Try doing it from a different computer and or different internet browser.