[Equest-users] Plots to Color PDF

Fri Feb 26 10:46:53 PST 2016

Adobe gets set up as kind of a separate printer if you’ve installed adobe acrobat.  If you use adobe reader, instead of acrobat,  you might not have a way to “print” to pdf.  But there are free apps that allow you to print to pdf like “CutePDF writer” as an example.

This program does print to color PDF directly from equest (I’ve never had a problem).
I like to set up the defaults to print to color.

Some people will change their bizhub settings in the office also because you can sometimes get charged 5 cents more per sheet if it’s a “color” plot.  So I’ve seen before where they’ll default everything to black and white.  I dunno that might explain some of it.

But printing graphs/reports and stuff is definitely possible with cutepdf writer with color plot set up.

-Chris in Alaska

From: Equest-users [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Daric Adair
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 7:38 AM
To: Matthew J. Baron; equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Plots to Color PDF

Matthew;

Thanks for the reply. I omitted this one from the list, buts failed for me too. I even have got through to check that all of the ‘printer’ setting are to color.  Do you know if you had to do anything special for settings?

I’ve talked to my IT guys and they swear they aren’t locking color out. Not sure 100%  believe this.
Will keep playing – but good to know you’ve had success with this printer….

Thanks,
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From: Matthew J. Baron [mailto:mbaron at wendelcompanies.com]
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 10:28 AM
To: Daric Adair <Daric.Adair at hei-eng.com<mailto:Daric.Adair at hei-eng.com>>; equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org<mailto:equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org>
Subject: RE: Plots to Color PDF

I personally use PDF forge pdf printer, it installs as a printer on your machine and creates pdfs, obviously, it is free and works well http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator

Thank you,
Matthew J. Baron, PE

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From: Equest-users [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Daric Adair
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 11:24 AM
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Subject: [Equest-users] Plots to Color PDF

All;

Has anyone else had issues getting the plots & bar charts that eQuest creates to print to pdf color? It seems that no matter what I have issue reliably getting these to print in color to pdf. I’ve tried a number of pdf creators [bullzip, bluebeam, primopdf, cutepdf] and all seem to fail. The ‘best’ work around has been to send to MS OneNote, then take to MS Word, THEN make the color PDF, This also make the numbers look like rubbish.

Or, are these plot created in separate files [like the SIM file is for the text results], which can then be sent to PDF? Any advance is appreciated.

Thanks,
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