Diagram icons missing in PostScript/PDF output

[cnahr]

(Looks like nobody's reading the Suggestions forum, so I'll repost here...)

When you create a package diagram of a namespace, EA will put small icons next to all elements that differentiate classes, interfaces, and nested namespaces.

Those icons also appear when saving to a graphics file. They are replaced with monochrome icons when printing to a HP PCL printer.

However, when printing to a PostScript printer or to Adobe's  PDF creator, those icons are completely missing. Only the text appears.

The workarounds are not satisfactory: exporting to a graphics file either renders the text as bitmaps (= ugly) or shows the icons on a black background within the yellow/gray component boxes (= also ugly).

I can't imagine that this should be hard to fix, given that EA already has dedicated for-print icons which are correctly used when printing to PCL printers.

So could you please fix this, so that we get proper icons in PostScript and PDF output? Thanks.

[thomaskilian]

If you don't get a reponse here, it's likely that you're the only one with that problem. In that case you should contact Sparx directly via Bug or Support mail request.

[cnahr]

Thanks, I wasn't aware of the dedicated bug report page and thought the Sparx folks would monitor this forum anyway. I've submitted a bug report now.

I think it's rather unlikely that I'm the only one who ever tried to create a PDF file from a package diagram, though, and I can't quite imagine what would be special about my system to produce such an odd bug...

[cnahr]

Well, that was quick! Sparx Support has replied to my bug report -- it's a known bug which they hope to fix in the near future. Meanwhile, the workarounds are creating an RTF report for the diagram, or saving as an image.