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Before you begin to define the settings on the PDF Output Setup subtab, on the > tab, set Drawing Output to PDF.
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Recipe Setting Name
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Output Options
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Font Control
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• TrueType Fonts—Common outline font often used in PDFs
• Stroked, searchable text
• Stroked, no searchable text
• Stroked Non True Type Font, searchable text
• Stroked Non True Type Font, no searchable text
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Color Control
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• Use Colors—Color PDF output
• Grayscale—Shades of gray
• Monochrome—Black and white
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Line Style
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Select Use pentable to selectively alter the printed appearance of elements, determine the order in which elements are printed, and control text string substitutions. If cleared, the output will use the PDF default line style.
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Hidden Lines As
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• Dashed Lines
• Solid Lines
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Linecap
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Select a cap style for line ends:
• Butt (default)
• Round
• Projecting Square
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Linejoint
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Select a line end style:
• Miter (default)
• Round
• Bevel
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Shaded View Res (dpi)—Resolution of shaded views
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The default is 300 dpi.
The recommended resolution range for Creo Parametric is 100 to 600 dpi.
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Generate
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Leave the Active Hyperlinks check box selected to export notes as active URLs in the PDF output.
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Layer Control
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• All—Export all layers
• Visible Only—Export only the visible layers of the drawing
• None—Export the visible entities on the drawing, but not the layers on which they are placed
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Parameter Control
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• All—Export all parameters
• Designated—Include only the specified model parameters in the export
• None—Export the drawing to the PDF format without the model parameters.
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Bookmarks
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The default for all four bookmark options is selected.
• Zones—Makes the PDF zoom in to the corresponding predefined region on the drawing sheet
• Sheets—Displays the corresponding drawing sheet. Single-sheet drawings are ignored.
• Views—Makes the PDF zoom in to the corresponding extents of the view, which is a predefined region on the drawing. No view bookmark is generated for a drawing with only two-dimensional entities.
• Flag Notes—Lists the instances of any flag notes in the bookmark. If the instances of the flag notes are on a sheet other than the current sheet, the corresponding drawing sheet with the instances of the flag notes are displayed. The PDF zooms in to a flag note once it is selected.
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