Expert: Bill DeShawn - 11/12/2007

Question
I'm using Autocad 2007 along with Acrobat 7.0 Standard.  Previously, I had Scansoft PDFMaker professional 3.0 for converting drawings to pdfs, but after my last laptop blew up our IT department "upgraded" me to the real Acrobat.  The problem is that whenever I convert a drawing to pdf now it doesn't embed the fonts and thus the size of the PDF goes up by at least 10x, i.e. drawing I converted in hte past that were 170k are now over 2MB.  If I convert to DWF first and then to PDF the fonts do embed and file sizes are down in roughly the correct range, using the same settings in Adobe PDF so I don't think it's a problem with how I have Acrobat set up.

I've tried converting a drawing that was nothing but two lines of text and still it ends up as line art in the PDF.  Any suggestions?

Answer
Matt:
Joel Fontenot (ironically named) came up with this suggestion:

Check the plot settings to see if it's set to plot truetype as text - that's
the part that embeds the text.  Attached is a screen shot of the setting.

But it only works for truetype fonts.  It won't work for SHX fonts which are
considered vector graphic entities during any plotting.

A screen shot was available, but I can't get that in here.  Just check your PC3 settings.  The TRUETYPE Text as Font setting is just above Merge Control.  

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