# Strange artifacts on graphics saved as PDF [closed]

I have a problem when plotting 3D graphs. Plotting any graph with the default settings using Plot3D, e.g.

Plot3D[Sin[Pi*x]*Sin[2 Pi*y], {x, 0, 1}, {y, 0, 1}]


produces graphs with correct labels, but trying to save them as PDF using the right click menu makes the label text messed up:

Note that the problem is only affecting saving using the Mathematica menu (the choice of options does not seem to matter) and only saving to PDF (other formats are okay). I am able to export PDFs without any issues using Export.

Does anyone know where the problem comes from? I was able to save very similar plots before with no problem, and I haven't changed anything since then.

I am using Mathematica 10.0.0 on Linux. Thanks for any help.

## closed as off-topic by MarcoB, user9660, Öskå, ubpdqn, Michael E2Mar 4 '16 at 12:26

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• It's a known issue I think. It's mentioned here somewhere that one should not save a Graphics through the menu until WRI fixes this. – Taiki Apr 12 '15 at 7:53
• I can't reproduce this problem on MMA 10.3.1 on Win7-64 bit. This is a screen capture of the PDF generated from right-click saving the graphic. I would conclude that the problem has since been fixed by Wolfram, hopefully for Linux as well as for Windows. – MarcoB Mar 1 '16 at 5:32