topic Re: poor print quality of embedded company logo in AutoCAD Forum

poor print quality of embedded company logo

demus72 — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 20:35:35 GMT

Embedding an image is pretty straight forward. In my case, we're were provided a png image from our marketing department.

1. Open the image file in Paint.

2. Ctrl-A

3. Ctrl-C

4. Paste the image into Cad using the Pastespec command. Most posts I read suggested the Picture (Metafile) option.

The issue my coworkers and I have ran into is when a sheet is printed to PDF and any subsequent prints on paper, our company logo embedded image's print quality is poor. It's very grainy and pixelated like the original image is a low resolution image. Is there a better method of embedding that maintains the original resolution of the image so when printed to PDF or paper it's crisp and sharp? Maybe a different image type besides png or a more robust program besides paint to copy the image?

Thank you

Re: poor print quality of embedded company logo

pendean — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 20:59:39 GMT

With your method, OLE quality is dependent of settings here in PROPERTIES after insertion:

BUT... if none of those help, then you'll get better results with referencing image in instead (IMAGEATTACH command): welcome to AutoCAD limitations.

Re: poor print quality of embedded company logo

demus72 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 19:50:13 GMT

Thanks for the reply pendean. Our OLE Plot quality is set to High graphics (e.g. photograph). I did experiment with the Raster image quality dpi and that did help quite a bit. One concern we have is would adjusting this value way up increase file size when printing PDFs with a Bing aerial photo in the background?

Are you aware of any other method of embedding an image into a dwg?

Thanks

Re: poor print quality of embedded company logo

Kent1Cooper — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:42:43 GMT

Instead of opening the image in Paint and copying out of that to paste into AutoCAD, try the simpler approach using IMAGEATTACH instead, to just bring the .png image in directly.

[EDIT: Realizing now that IMAGEATTACH is like XREF -- it does not embed the image, so you would need to have the external image file available. And for Images there's no equivalent I have found to Binding an Xref.]

Re: poor print quality of embedded company logo

pendean — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:19:37 GMT

@demus72 wrote:
...Are you aware of any other method of embedding an image into a dwg?...

You could try live-linking, with this choice in Options dialog box's Plot and Publish tab (read about it in HELP)

Autodesk offers this

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Raster-images-display-and-plot-in-low-quality-in-AutoCAD.html

These are the OLE commands and variables in the program if you wish to explore more: