Bug - PDF export missing brush strokes

Can anyone reproduce this apparent bug in FHMX?
1. Apply a brushstroke to an object.
2. Group with 'Transform As Unit' checked.
3. Duplicate object several times. Scale some of the copies
larger and some
smaller.
4. Export document to PDF.
Open exported PDF in Acrobat, Illustrator or Preview.
Unexpected results:
All of the scaled copies of the object are missing from the
PDF.
Judy Arndt
FHMX 11.0.2, Mac OS 10.4.6

Rich Hudgins wrote:
> Confirmed in FH10 - OSX 10.4.x. I tried opening the PDF
back into FH
> just for kicks... very interesting. There are the exact
number of
> originals and dupes directly on top of the original.
i.e. I made an
> original and two smaller and two larger dupes, offset
from the original.
> In the FH opened PDF there were 5 exact copies of the
original item
> directly on top of each other. There were also 5
nostroke-nofill copies
> of the original shape without the brush stroke.
Wow! Yes! Same here.
Any transforms done to an object after being grouped with
'Transform As
Unit', are being ignored by the PDF Export.
This series of steps will produce the same problem described
by Makate.
1. Apply a brushstroke to an object.
2. Duplicate object and move it to another location on page.
3. Group the duplicate object with 'Transform As Unit' (TAU)
checked. Then
scale it larger.
4. Export document to PDF.
Unexpected results:
The duplicate object will be the same size as the original
object.
This will happen not only with brush strokes but with
ordinary strokes. PDF
Export is missing all transformations made after TAU is
applied. If I
remember correctly, TAU, which has been in FH since very
early versions, is
a kind of Postscript envelope. My theory is that because FH
doesn't have a
Postscript interpreter, it's missing the Postsript
transformations.
This limitation in PDF Export is very unfortunate because the
default
preference setting in a new FH installation is "Groups
transform as unit by
default". It is the logical way to preserve the appearance of
artwork with
strokes, brush strokes and vector effects. New users could
not possibly know
that this is one of the many limitations of PDF export. It's
not listed in
the technote, but it may be the reason for 'missing objects'.
http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_13496
Using Acrobat Pro/Distiller is the only safe way to generate
PDF files from
FreeHand.
Judy Arndt

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