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morgen_m_c
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‎10-02-2001 11:40 AM
‎10-02-2001 11:40 AM

PHOTOSHOP EXPORT

I'm a graphic designer that uses CAD drawings in Photoshop to do unit layouts and marketing drawings. As you can imagine, printing, or exporting them as a tiff or eps can cause a lose of quality and time.

I have heard that there is such a thing as an autocad-photoshop plugin, but have had no luck in finding it as yet.

Would anyone be able to help me!?!

Morgen M Carson
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Anonymous
in reply to: morgen_m_c
‎10-02-2001 12:27 PM
‎10-02-2001 12:27 PM


Weve just had a similar issue yesterday.

 

We plotted our drawings out to Adobe Acrobat.

Opened the Acrobat file in Photoshop and they worked brilliantly complete
with line weights colours etc.

 

Its fairly quick & simple plus gives you great resolution controll ie
we outputted at 300dpi with no quality loss.

 

Regards

Bruce.


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I'm
a graphic designer that uses CAD drawings in Photoshop to do unit layouts and
marketing drawings. As you can imagine, printing, or exporting them as a tiff
or eps can cause a lose of quality and time.

I have heard that there is such a thing as an autocad-photoshop plugin, but
have had no luck in finding it as yet.

Would anyone be able to help me!?!

Morgen M Carson

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morgen_m_c
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‎10-02-2001 02:26 PM
‎10-02-2001 02:26 PM

Thank you so much!! I've been looking at the help files about plotting to an acrobat file, and I've been having a lot of trouble trying to get it all figured out.

Would you be able to give me a few hints...

Morgen M Carson
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Anonymous
in reply to: morgen_m_c
‎10-02-2001 04:48 PM
‎10-02-2001 04:48 PM

Get the full Acrobat version (you have to buy it!) or get
another PDF-writing tool.

The Adobe installation will give you two new plotters on your
system (editable in ACAD to PC3-files).

Then you just plot to theese plotters as if they were real
plotters, only the result is an Acrobat file.

 

To get the scaling 100% correct you have to use the destiller
plotter instead of the PDFwriter...


-- JAY
Norwegian Public Roads
Administration
County Office in Vest-Agder


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you so much!! I've been looking at the help files about plotting to an acrobat
file, and I've been having a lot of trouble trying to get it all figured out.

Would you be able to give me a few hints...

Morgen M Carson

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Anonymous
in reply to: morgen_m_c
‎10-02-2001 09:19 PM
‎10-02-2001 09:19 PM

Although the PDF route will work, using EPS will not lose any quality
and doesn't cost any more money.

Just do NOT use the PSOUT command or it's alias, "File" "Export" "EPS".
Instead set up a plotter using the PostScript driver and plotting to a
file.

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In article , Morgen_m_c wrote:
> I'm a graphic designer that uses CAD drawings in Photoshop to do
> unit layouts and marketing drawings. As you can imagine, printing,
> or exporting them as a tiff or eps can cause a lose of quality and
> time.
> I have heard that there is such a thing as an
> autocad-photoshop plugin, but have had no luck in finding it as yet.
>
> Would anyone be able to help me!?!
> Morgen M Carson
>
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ottema
in reply to: morgen_m_c
‎10-02-2001 10:46 PM
‎10-02-2001 10:46 PM

Use Acrobat Distiller and create vector EPS files (use Mview in layout works creat) But why opening vector files into PhotoShop and convert them into ugly raster format.
Scaling and edit the raster files is not creat. If you want to use the files for documentation or press work open them in Adobe Illustrator. It opens vector EPS or DXF without any loss. Text and acad entities can be edit like AutoCAD way. Circels stay circels and not sextant or more ugly.
If you want raster file then create Mview in layout and use copy paste into Photoshop or any raster program. Use lineweight to use thick lines (printing raster lineweight 1 is to small)
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Anonymous
in reply to: morgen_m_c
‎10-02-2001 10:59 PM
‎10-02-2001 10:59 PM

EPS format file from AutoCAD is a lot better than PDF, and you can control
output resolution.

To set it up in AutoCAD, use PLOTTERMANAGER to set up and Adobe Postscript
level 1 plotter, set to plot to file. Edit the resulting PC3 file to set
such things as output resolution and EPS file format.
Then import into Photoshop, or any other EPS file capable graphics program,
and enjoy higher quality input files.

--
Dean Saadallah
www.pendean.com
--


"Jørgen Sandø" wrote in message
news:55390F30F3F1891A75308A0F9EBEAF4B@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Get the full Acrobat version (you have to buy it!) or get another
PDF-writing tool.
> The Adobe installation will give you two new plotters on your system
(editable in ACAD to PC3-files).
> Then you just plot to theese plotters as if they were real plotters, only
the result is an Acrobat file.
>
> To get the scaling 100% correct you have to use the destiller plotter
instead of the PDFwriter...
>
> -- JAY
> Norwegian Public Roads Administration
> County Office in Vest-Agder
>
> "morgen_m_c" skrev i melding
news:f087919.1@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Thank you so much!! I've been looking at the help files about plotting
to an acrobat file, and I've been having a lot of trouble trying to get it
all figured out.
> Would you be able to give me a few hints...
>
> Morgen M Carson
>
>
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Anonymous
in reply to: morgen_m_c
‎10-02-2001 11:24 PM
‎10-02-2001 11:24 PM

You could also look at getting Corel Draw 10. 
It opens AutoCAD 2000 files directly.  Imports eps (out of AutoCAD) as
vector drawings. 

 

You then can edit them and then bring them into
photoshop.

 

I have Corel 10 and have no problems bringing in
AutoCAD drawings.  If you are working with 3d Models I would plot to eps
(gives you lineweights out of AutoCad) or if you import as a DWG then you get
layers.

 

Their is bonus' to both.  I have heard that
Corel Draw is in many ways much more powerful that AI (I don't have a copy of
AI)

 

Jeff M.

 


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Use
Acrobat Distiller and create vector EPS files (use Mview in layout works
creat) But why opening vector files into PhotoShop and convert them into ugly
raster format.
Scaling and edit the raster files is not creat. If you want
to use the files for documentation or press work open them in Adobe
Illustrator. It opens vector EPS or DXF without any loss. Text and acad
entities can be edit like AutoCAD way. Circels stay circels and not sextant or
more ugly.
If you want raster file then create Mview in layout and use
copy paste into Photoshop or any raster program. Use lineweight to use thick
lines (printing raster lineweight 1 is to small)
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Anonymous
in reply to: morgen_m_c
‎10-04-2001 04:44 PM
‎10-04-2001 04:44 PM

I certainly do agree, but the question asked were how to make PDF's from
AutoCAD...

JAY
--
Norwegian Public Roads Administration
County Office in Vest-Agder
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Anonymous
in reply to: morgen_m_c
‎10-04-2001 11:16 PM
‎10-04-2001 11:16 PM

Not really: the original post question was how to get AutoCAD into
Photoshop.

--
Dean Saadallah
www.pendean.com
--


"Jørgen Sandø" wrote in message
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> I certainly do agree, but the question asked were how to make PDF's from
> AutoCAD...
>
> JAY
> --
> Norwegian Public Roads Administration
> County Office in Vest-Agder
>
>
>
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