I’m having a problem where some, but not all, of my imported sketchup scenes show up with very faded textures in my pdf exports. The scenes are from the same model, but appear correctly on some pages and bleached out on others. They look fine in the print preview, but the change occurs in the pdf …

This has been reported before. It seems to have something to do with certain combinations of graphics cards and Mac OSX versions. A number of users have reported that the problem has been fixed by installing Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat and using File>Export to create the PDF instead of Printing to…

I’ve had similar issues reported by mac users of pdf’s I’ve made. Where certain items are missing but they are showing up on my pdf document. It seems to be that mac uses a proprietary pdf viewer which sometimes does not resolve the pdf file correctly. If it’s viewed in Adobe acrobat or reader it s…

This has just solved the same problem for me. I guess the go to answer is set all scenes in Sketchup and do not alter in Layout (until the pdf ‘fade’ glitch is fixed at least). That’s just taken an hour of scrolling through help documents and downloading acrobat reader etc etc etc before I found you…

[image] jonp001: I guess the go to answer is set all scenes in Sketchup and do not alter in Layout In general this is best practice anyway. When scenes are modified in LayOut, scene-specific changes made in SketchUp won’t carry over to the LayOut file.

Thank you thank you thank you!!! Driving me crazy… but you have fixed it. Thank you!

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MikeWayzovski August 24, 2018, 10:48pm 3

Also make sure the scenes are not showing ‘Modified’
This solved it for a few, as welll.

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