As I had problems with printing jpg/tiff background images (mainly orthophotos) to pdf before with the ProgeCad2009 (see http://www.caddit.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=147) I'm having even more problems with ProgeCAD2010.
I'm using PDFill PDF&Image Writer now (I was using CutePDFWriter before, but somehow lost some of the settings). With PDFill PDF&Image Writer you can set PDF Colour Image Compression to jpg, which reduces the PDF-file-size by a large amount. As the progesoft PDF-Printers haven't got this feature, I always print to pdf with PDFill PDF&Image Writer.
Using this printer though, ProgeCad2010 hangs itself up during the printing and I'm not getting a pdf. Using ProgeCad2009 instead with the same settings, it's doing it without a problem.
But as I described last year, ProgCad2009 has got its problems with the printing, especially with rotated images. Most of the time I'm having no problems printing the same file with ProgeCad2008. The 2008 version handles more image types than ProgeCAD2007, but sometimes even ProgeCAD2008 doesn't print some background JPG-images. In those cases I'm still happy to have ProgeCad2007. I was really impressed with ProgeCad 2007. It handled background images with ease. It was displaying them very quickly, the print preview was really fast and it was printing the images.
I don't understand, why the image printing to pdf is getting worse and worse every year with every upgrade. I know that ProgeCad in total has improved every year, but can the developers please go back and have a look at the ProgeCad2007 version and how the image printing has changed since. Because it's a real pain to work in the newest version, but having to open the drawing in an older version to print it.
The printing hasn't been a problem in older versions, so I can't see why this can't be solved.
Thanks
I'm using PDFill PDF&Image Writer now (I was using CutePDFWriter before, but somehow lost some of the settings). With PDFill PDF&Image Writer you can set PDF Colour Image Compression to jpg, which reduces the PDF-file-size by a large amount. As the progesoft PDF-Printers haven't got this feature, I always print to pdf with PDFill PDF&Image Writer.
Using this printer though, ProgeCad2010 hangs itself up during the printing and I'm not getting a pdf. Using ProgeCad2009 instead with the same settings, it's doing it without a problem.
But as I described last year, ProgCad2009 has got its problems with the printing, especially with rotated images. Most of the time I'm having no problems printing the same file with ProgeCad2008. The 2008 version handles more image types than ProgeCAD2007, but sometimes even ProgeCAD2008 doesn't print some background JPG-images. In those cases I'm still happy to have ProgeCad2007. I was really impressed with ProgeCad 2007. It handled background images with ease. It was displaying them very quickly, the print preview was really fast and it was printing the images.
I don't understand, why the image printing to pdf is getting worse and worse every year with every upgrade. I know that ProgeCad in total has improved every year, but can the developers please go back and have a look at the ProgeCad2007 version and how the image printing has changed since. Because it's a real pain to work in the newest version, but having to open the drawing in an older version to print it.
The printing hasn't been a problem in older versions, so I can't see why this can't be solved.
Thanks