Article - CS42129
Exporting drawings as PDF using monochrome setting by default in Creo Parametric
Modified: 03-Nov-2025
Applies To
- Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire to Wildfire 5.0
- Creo Parametric 1.0 to 12.4
- Creo View Adapters 1.0 to 8.0
- Windchill PDMLink 10.2 to 12.0
Description
- This is about exporting drawings as Adobe PDF format files by using the Save As > Save a Copy, Quick Export (*.PDF) or Export, and also Print > Print or Quick Print to a PDF virtual printer
- When exporting a drawing to PDF, the option Color on the General tab of the Settings dialog box is by default set to Color
- Which config.pro option can be used to set Monochrome as default to export drawings to PDF
- Can a Pen Table file be used to do this
- Cannot export axis line as PDF in black color
- How to export multiple drawings as PDF in Monochrome using Distributed Pro/Batch
- How to print shaded view in color and non shaded view in black and white
- How to export drawing to PDF so Inserted color images appear in grayscale
- How to export a drawing as PDF in color instead of monochrome
- PDF generated by CAD worker is in Monochrome even after setting the PDF output setting to 'Use Colors'
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