Re: Text in PostScript output from Pro-E

David, thanks for your response.

> The problem with pdf is that it is created, in this case, from the PS output.

Are you sure about that? I'm not talking about distilling Pro-E's
native (vector) PS output to PDF. That wouldn't help, I know.

On Windows at least, printing a drawing "to file" to a PostScript
printer driver creates a different PS file than using Pro-E's own PS
output function, because the PS is generated by the (arbitrarily
chosen) printer driver. By that same rationale, products that can
create PDF straight from Pro-E would not use the native PS output.

Surely there are people out there who save their Pro-E drawings as
PDF, and do so via printing to Acrobat or some other PDF creation
tool. Maybe they can let me know if such PDF files can still retain
text?

> Since the PostScript file contains only vector data, 

But I'm hoping that that doesn't have to be the case. I'm hoping that
there is a setting that can be changed so that the PostScript file
retains text as text. Something like 'embed fonts'.

A little background: I'm not the Pro-E user, my customer is. They want
to use our software to turn their CAD drawings into SVG format for a
spare parts application. Our software
(http://www.square1.nl/index.htm) is a batch conversion tool that uses
PS/EPS/PDF as input formats. Having the part numbers as text still
makes it easier to connect them to database info.

Thanks again!

Jeroen Dekker
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