topic Re: Cannot print photo PASTESPEC in AutoCAD LT Forum

Cannot print photo PASTESPEC

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:09:50 GMT

I am running AutoCad LT 2018

I have been trying for some time to insert jpg's, png etc into a series of drawings. I have used the pastespec command with Paintbrush Picture, Picture, Devices Independent Bitmap and Image Entity. The photo's appear in the drawing The trouble comes with plotting to either pdf or my printer when the image just disappears??

Re: Cannot print photo PASTESPEC

Patchy — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:16:26 GMT

The layer the photo resides is set to no plot or on defpoints?

Re: Cannot print photo PASTESPEC

pendean — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:27:55 GMT

... or the plot output is too large for the drivers you are aiming for.

Re: Cannot print photo PASTESPEC

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:51:09 GMT

Thanks for the suggestion but the layer is set for plotting.

Regards

Alan

Re: Cannot print photo PASTESPEC

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:55:09 GMT

The I have manged to insert photos in the past but it has always been a bit patchy. This current session I have tried almost everything that has been suggested and now the only way I can get around it is by inserting it as Raster image ref. The only problem with this is that when I send my drawings over we need to sort out the links?

Alan

Re: Cannot print photo PASTESPEC

h_s_walker — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 16:03:55 GMT

Why not use IMAGEATTACH to insert the images (always put them in the same directory as the drawing)?

If sending the drawing out why not use ETRANSMIT? This creates a zip file with all relevant files needed to open the drawing.

Re: Cannot print photo PASTESPEC

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 11:04:09 GMT

hwalker

I have just tried out your suggestion and it has worked a treat.

Thanks

Alan