PlotMan

It is not widely known, that using transparencies
in Autodesk® AutoCAD® software
makes the resulting PDF files be rasterised.

This can have unexpected results. A notable example being Arabic texts.

We will explain why this happens, and how we manged to solve it in
one of our apps: PlotMan for all of our customers who can now
just use PlotMan normally to create their PDF files and not worry about this at all.

Sometimes we get asked how PlotMan, one of our apps,
compares to using plain publish in Autodesk® AutoCAD® software.

We think the approaches are so different (and ours is much simpler!) that it was worth it to answer the question in a more definitive fashion.