Known Limitations in the AcroPlot Repro™ PDF & DWF® to TIFF Converter | The following items are known limitations in the current version of AcroPlot Repro™ software: |
| | 1. | DWF® files may process slower with AcroPlot Repro™ than with other applications. This is due to the fact that AcroPlot Repro™ must interrogate each DWF® sheet to determine which program created it. AcroPlot Repro™ does not use Autodesk's Printer Development Toolkit which has known limitations with processing Revit® DWF files. The DWF® processor in AcroPlot Repro™ will properly render all DWF® files with superior quality and proper text justifications, especially DWF® files created using Autodesk® Revit®. |
| | 2. | When configuring Océ Repro Desk® 1.6 for DWF processing the first page in a multi-paged DWF is omitted and the last page is inserted twice; once at the very end of the set with the same name as the original DWF and again as the last page with the correct incremented file name. |
| | This only happens when processing multi-paged DWF files in Océ Repro Desk® 1.6 with either the Ocemakeldf.exe or the AcroPlotRepro.exe. If you look in the temp folder that the LDF or TIFF's are rendered to during processing, all the sheets are there. Océ Repro Desk® 1.6 does not bring them in properly. This is not an AcroPlot Repro limitation; it's a Océ Repro Desk® 1.6 limitation. |
| | Below is how sheets will drop into Océ Repro Desk® 1.6 if the source multi-paged DWF file name is:
"CADzation-DWG-to-DWF-Benchmark-FileR4.dwf"
CADzation-DWG-to-DWF-Benchmark-FileR4.P2.LDF [Sheet 2 in the DWF]
CADzation-DWG-to-DWF-Benchmark-FileR4.P3.LDF [Sheet 3 in the DWF]
CADzation-DWG-to-DWF-Benchmark-FileR4.P4.LDF [Sheet 4 in the DWF]
CADzation-DWG-to-DWF-Benchmark-FileR4.P5.LDF [Sheet 5 in the DWF]
CADzation-DWG-to-DWF-Benchmark-FileR4.dwf [Sheet 5 in the DWF]
This is a limitation in Océ Repro Desk® 1.6 and has been corrected in Océ Publisher 2.0 and Océ Repro Desk® 2.0. |
| | 3. | Plotting PDF files at a reduced sheet or paper size using programs like Océ Repro Desk® will result in darker grayscales or undesirable fill patterns. These issues occur because Océ Repro Desk® is processing the PDF at full scale and then reducing the resulting TIFF by the scale factor input by the User before plotting. The solution is to run AcroPlot Repro™ by itself for creating reduced sheet or paper size TIFF files, because AcroPlot Repro™ will first scale down the PDF before the TIFF is created. This results in reduced sheet or paper size TIFF files that will have more consistent grayscales and fill patterns when compared to the full size originals. |
| | AcroPlot Repro includes a half-size conversion utility that runs in conjunction with Océ Repro Desk®, KIP Request®, and MetaPrint™ software applications. If AcroPlot Repro is configured as the PDF or DWF processor for Océ Repro Desk®, KIP Request®, and MetaPrint™ software, then the half-size utility will intercept file processing with the additional reduction instructions. Your production workflow remains the same for full and half-size sets! |
| | TIP: Make sure in your Océ Repro Desk®, KIP Request®, and MetaPrint™ software to leave the scaling at 100% otherwise you will end up getting a 50% reduction of the AcroPlot Repro 50% reduction. |
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