Antialiasing added to AutoCAD 2015... but not to printers?

[Anonymous]

AutoCAD 2015 added antialiasing to the screen, giving us all "smooth lines" and all that...

But how do I print/export/save to a PNG (or other bitmap) with the same quality?

When I would (want to use) a screenshot... obviously it is antialiased when I have that switched on in 2015.. but that will also give me the entire AutoCAD interface, and no scaling etc.

When I use PNGOUT on a layout, I basically get a screenshot output... So, with 2015 antialiasing on, it seems to be kind of antialiased - but it also prints the paper's edge and seems to be unconfigurable (resolution etc).

When I use the Publishtoweb PNG plotter I get the configuring I'd like (output size etc)... but the output is aliased - blocky... pixelly.

The plotter is configurable... up to a point: the graphics section basically lets you pick color, black/white or ancient (256 color) - as long as it's 100 DPI.

Am I overlooking a setting, is there an updated .pc3 file available... do I need to wait till the next Acad release and hope the plotters then are updated to the screen possibilities?

[Anonymous]

It doesn't really help either that the plot preview has antialiasing - while the plotter doesn't 😕

[pendean]

Display settings have nothing to dow ith output: if you want what you see on screen in a file explore using a screen-capture tool.

Also, read this classic tip http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Underst...
http://www.cadforum.cz/cadforum_en/qaID.asp?tip=1028

[Anonymous]

Yes... duh. I did think I covered both of those things in my question.

But from that I take it you do not have a real solution either...

So I'll just keep bothering Autodesk till they update the bitmap output pc3's 😛

[pendean]

Sadly it's your last sentence in the first post forced a repeat of the solutions. You still appeared confused with your second post.

If you want Autodesk to listen, you need to get their attention here http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=1109794 or report it as a bug here http://download.autodesk.com/us/support/report_a_bug.html and/or through your subscription webpage's 'contact us' link.

No one in this forum is taking notes for Autodesk developers unless it's by sheer accident.

[Anonymous]

Sorry if it sounded confused... but I always first see if there's something I might be overlooking or doing wrong before I put it as a suggestion/bug.

The second post was more of a complaint: a preview should be exactly that, not a nice-ed up version.

Your two links are dead to me by the way, but I'll look around the site for where they've moved them.

[pendean]

Both links work fine then and right now: you may be just having a local issue when you tried them (don't copy/paste them).

[Anonymous]

Jup, they work now. When I jut tried them (by just clicking), I got the Autodesk site "sorry moved" page for one and a time-out for the other.