Hi there,

I just tested this out and made a pdf file from ACM 2K9 and ACM 2K10 with several same drawings.
Result: none - there is no degrade noticeable and all are fine.

So my question to you is now: how do you create those pdf files?

Are you using the ACM plotter DWG To PDF.pc3?

The only thing I noticed (but that in both versions) this plotter's quality is better than Acrobat PDFwriter but worse than Acrobat Distiller (which I always prefer). So which way are you using?

so far, André

edit: I just noticed your different layer/levels in that pdf file - are you using an extra tool for that?
If not may my knowledge is too low and I've missed something in the program ^.^

Edited by: Skyemugen on Nov 9, 2009 7:40 AM

Ah, my bad. I tried some drawings yesterday err that were just to full of things to see really the quality difference between 2009 and 2010 produced files. However I noticed you are right - kind of 'cause I didn't still get big difference but yeah it's worse anyhow (but I only noticed that in small areas when there are many lines in 2009 you see them separatly in 2010 seems like one big fat blob - but the text e.g. was all fine though).



Seems like I ignored the left side of my Adobe Reader yesterday when looking the in 2010 with DWG To PDF.pc3 produced files - that's why I wondered about the layer in your pdf-file :D (I noticed that's a new feature in 2010 isn't it?).



However both qualities suck when watching a pdf-file produced with Acrobat Distiller printer from AutoCAD so I personally would recommend if your company has a working edition of Adobe Acrobat (an older one is enough) you should use the printer of that instead of DWG To PDF.pc3 to get best quality (but you won't get layers anymore in that pdf-file ^.^).



So after all I don't have a solution within AutoCAD printer itself - developer gave you a new feature but less quality (you can't have all can you xD), so if you can't use an Acrobat Distiller printer you should think about converting the dwg-files down to 2009 (great uh? btw: the 2010 upgrade never was worthwhile after all in my eyes - got more probs than before ^.^) and printing there to get the old good quality ... and parallel waiting for a fix for 2010.



Hint: Using the DWG To PDF.pc3 in 2010 makes your pdf-files safer I noticed. Because all other pdf-files created with Distiller or in 2009 version without that layer-feature makes it possible to open them in a special program [won't tell here which program that is - it's a free and legal one but noone has to know if they don't use/need it at all] and converting back to a dwg-file (ah ok it's an extra dll needed but people who wants the file know how to google). With that feature included this program gets a problem and closes the file immediatly with an error log. ^.^ (safest after all is to print a dwg as tiff and print then as pdf so the programs don't know the structure)



Whoa got a long text - hope I could help you a bit anyhow.



Have a nice day ipearsall.



so far, André