PDF Underlay Line weight and software to convert PDF to DWG

[kevin.dong]

Hi,

I have 2 questions.

1)  Is there a way that I can control the line thickness of the PDF underlay?  I notice that when I pan around the very thin lines appear for the pdf, as soon as I stop, the line thickness comes back.  Could I disable line thickness for a PDF underlay?

2)  Can anyone recommend from their experience a good PDF to autocad file converting software for the MAC?

Thanks in advance!

Kevin

[pendean · Accepted solution]

1. No, AutoCAD does not edit or alter the content of PDF files.
2. I will leave for others to recommend, please wait.

[maxim_k · Accepted solution]

Hi Kevin,

1) You can not control thickness in PDF underlay, you can only turn ON or OFF Layers (if any) in PDF, switch color/monochrome mode and snap to elements in PDF.

2) Personally I use two applications:

- Inkscape - free, but it can only export PDF to DXF and it export only lines, circles and polylines, text objects and fills doesn't converted to DXF

- Adobe Illustrator - not free, but it can open PDF files natively and save DXF and DWG format directly and can export text to DWG

EDIT: forget to mension about pdf2cad application which you can find in MAS, but it is also not free and I have not tried it, but the review in MAS does not inspire:

HTH

Maxim