Article - CS25648

When creating PDF with export setting ‘Use True Type Fonts’, symbol, text and BOM balloon index numbers positions may not match the drawing in Creo Parametric

Modified: 19-Sep-2025   


Applies To

  • Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire to Wildfire 5.0
  • Creo Parametric 1.0 to 12.4
  • Windchill PDMLink 12.0 to 13.1

Description

  • Generating a PDF using a true type font don't generate correct results for tolerances
  • Drawing text and fonts do not display the same on the exported PDF
  • Drawing viewable in Creo View does not match drawing display in Creo Parametric
  • PDF published by worker shows different font than PDF created via Creo Parametric
  • Text is misaligned and overlapped in the published PDF
  • The index number inside BOM balloons are displayed incorrectly when published drawing is opened in Creo View,
    • Index numbers inside BOM balloons are shown correctly in Creo Parametric
  • The width of the text is larger in the exported pdf than the width of the text using font.ndx font in Creo Parametric
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