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OK Ladies and Gents, 27 years on DCAD and I'm really stumped.

Have a solid fill that's LT MGTA under White Text, on the screen everything's OK but when I go to Print Preview the text changes to BLACK...????

Yes TTF
Text and Fill are on separate layers
Yes "Map fill colors to pen colors" checked
Bitmaps and Fills "Print First" checked
New Pen Table (saved from edited v16 original)
Only four colors, White 1, Red 4, Lt Mgta 2, Dk Gray 3, all 0.25 and 100% w/ colors matched
Pen Sort is off, WYSIWYG on
Printer in "FoxIt Reader PDF Printer", no change using "PDF-XChange Printer 2012"

Funny thing is when I change the text to Red on Lt Mgta Fill it's fine, switch back to White on Lt Mgta and it goes back to black.

Someone knows what's going on, Dave G.?

First guess, is your pen table set to map fills to pens?

Paul Nida wrote:First guess, is your pen table set to map fills to pens?

Yes but unchecking and resaving the pen table doesn't solve the problem. (that was the first thing I tried)

Have you tried setting the color to the lightest custom gray?

I am not sure how WYSIWYG works with the display option Layer Order if you have Last turned on, but might check and see if Last or First is turned and see if it related to your layer order and how it's printing.

joshhuggins wrote:I am not sure how WYSIWYG works with the display option Layer Order if you have Last turned on, but might check and see if Last or First is turned and see if it related to your layer order and how it's printing.

Nope DisplayList>Layer Order has no effect on the plot color, tried it anyway to be sure. Fills and bitmaps are already printing first.

If you want to post or send me the file and pen table I can play with it. joshATjoshhuggins.com

Paul Nida wrote:Have you tried setting the color to the lightest custom gray?

That did the trick! Changed the White pen "Map to Color" RGB values to 254 and saved the new "Custom Color".

Experimenting with colored pen palettes and settings isn't something I had much need of. Thanks for the lesson Paul.

Come to think of it I may have done this around 20 years ago for one of my daughter's school projects....

You're welcome, glad I could help.