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How to export Autocad drawings to Photoshop nicely?
How to export Autocad drawings to Photoshop nicely?
I think there is a general question has been or will be asked by many users
about how to export Autocad drawings to Photoshop nicely. If anyone asked
or knew how to do, please let me know. Thanks.
--
Xing
Intern Architect, 3D modeler, Web designer
Using Distiller (or any PDF printer that outputs a good quality PDF,
pdfwriter does not in my experience), I print the DWG to a PDF then open
that in Photoshop. You can (if you have it), open the DWG in Illustrator
then save as image and open in Photoshop.
If you don't have Distiller then you can this free (or pay $20 for the ad
free version) PDF printer:
www.pdf995.com. I've been using it with success for a few month now.
HTH
--
Kevin Nehls
"Xing" wrote in message
news:B9745D9DB3EF465DB8BF6061D882C4C5@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> I think there is a general question has been or will be asked by many
users
> about how to export Autocad drawings to Photoshop nicely. If anyone asked
> or knew how to do, please let me know. Thanks.
>
> --
> Xing
> Intern Architect, 3D modeler, Web designer
>
>
As I experimented in PDF format, I found it is not very smooth.
I will post my solution today too. Thank you very much, kevin for your
message though.
Xing
"Kevin Nehls" wrote in message
news:A6B3C335D44C54731360928056B88E9D@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Here is what I've done.
>
> Using Distiller (or any PDF printer that outputs a good quality PDF,
> pdfwriter does not in my experience), I print the DWG to a PDF then open
> that in Photoshop. You can (if you have it), open the DWG in Illustrator
> then save as image and open in Photoshop.
>
> If you don't have Distiller then you can this free (or pay $20 for the ad
> free version) PDF printer:
> www.pdf995.com. I've been using it with success for a few month now.
>
> HTH
> --
> Kevin Nehls
>
>
> "Xing" wrote in message
> news:B9745D9DB3EF465DB8BF6061D882C4C5@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > I think there is a general question has been or will be asked by many
> users
> > about how to export Autocad drawings to Photoshop nicely. If anyone
asked
> > or knew how to do, please let me know. Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Xing
> > Intern Architect, 3D modeler, Web designer
> >
> >
>
>
I think it really depends on your settings when printing to PDF. That free
PDF printer I posted seems to be working great. Distiller did too. When I
used PDFWriter (another PDF printer that comes with Acrobat and probably
most Adobe software), the text and the line work was not smooth, it may have
been better if I had been using TT fonts instead, but we don't for 99.99% of
our stuff....
--
Kevin Nehls
"Xing" wrote in message
news:FC1BDA60E2868249D9DDDD1B63F92C48@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> As I experimented in PDF format, I found it is not very smooth.
>
> I will post my solution today too. Thank you very much, kevin for your
> message though.
>
> Xing
With your confirmation, I definitely will try out distiller writer and PDF
printer. Do you have url to show the staff you made in this way? Forgive
me if I ask too much.
Xing
"Kevin Nehls" wrote in message
news:5DB0C2D9A6FD436DF25D1DF8219E1653@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> I think it really depends on your settings when printing to PDF. That
free
> PDF printer I posted seems to be working great. Distiller did too. When
I
> used PDFWriter (another PDF printer that comes with Acrobat and probably
> most Adobe software), the text and the line work was not smooth, it may
have
> been better if I had been using TT fonts instead, but we don't for 99.99%
of
> our stuff....
>
> --
> Kevin Nehls
>
>
> "Xing" wrote in message
> news:FC1BDA60E2868249D9DDDD1B63F92C48@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > As I experimented in PDF format, I found it is not very smooth.
> >
> > I will post my solution today too. Thank you very much, kevin for your
> > message though.
> >
> > Xing
>
>
Nope. We (I mostly) primarily print to a PDF for 1 of 2 reasons.
1) To send the drawing to any Kinkos in the U.S. to have a drawing printed
there. This is great (but cost's a little more) becuase you don't have to
worry if the person can view or print acad drawings, plus you can easily do
color and everything comes out correctly.
2) To send one of our label drawings (drawn in AutoCAD) to our label
manufacturer who only has Photoshop and Illustrator (not version 10).
Plus none of it's been anything fancy, just some layout and labels. I do
have one (still not fancy) that I have in PDF format that I'll email to:
james_lixing@yahoo.com
--
Kevin Nehls
"Xing" wrote in message
news:1587E8C23D32621F866F3DDE2F6BEF81@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Thanks Kevin.
>
> With your confirmation, I definitely will try out distiller writer and PDF
> printer. Do you have url to show the staff you made in this way?
Forgive
> me if I ask too much.
>
> Xing
Another posibilty that works great (and fast) is to plot to a PLT file.
(HPGL2 using a HP Designjet 1050 driver or similar)
Then use our PLT2TIF tool, to convert the PLT into TIF.
As you work with HPGL2 also "color merge" is supported.
There is a freeware and a shareware version.
See
http://www.tgsoft.ch/English/PLT2TIF.htm
for more details.
Regards
Toni
"Xing" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:B9745D9DB3EF465DB8BF6061D882C4C5@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> I think there is a general question has been or will be asked by many
users
> about how to export Autocad drawings to Photoshop nicely. If anyone asked
> or knew how to do, please let me know. Thanks.
>
> --
> Xing
> Intern Architect, 3D modeler, Web designer
>
>
I'm digging the pdf system printer found at www.pdf995.com too.
"Xing" wrote in message
news:1587E8C23D32621F866F3DDE2F6BEF81@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Thanks Kevin.
>
> With your confirmation, I definitely will try out distiller writer and PDF
> printer. Do you have url to show the staff you made in this way?
Forgive
> me if I ask too much.
>
> Xing
> "Kevin Nehls" wrote in message
> news:5DB0C2D9A6FD436DF25D1DF8219E1653@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > I think it really depends on your settings when printing to PDF. That
> free
> > PDF printer I posted seems to be working great. Distiller did too.
When
> I
> > used PDFWriter (another PDF printer that comes with Acrobat and probably
> > most Adobe software), the text and the line work was not smooth, it may
> have
> > been better if I had been using TT fonts instead, but we don't for
99.99%
> of
> > our stuff....
> >
> > --
> > Kevin Nehls
> >
> >
> > "Xing" wrote in message
> > news:FC1BDA60E2868249D9DDDD1B63F92C48@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > > As I experimented in PDF format, I found it is not very smooth.
> > >
> > > I will post my solution today too. Thank you very much, kevin for
your
> > > message though.
> > >
> > > Xing
> >
> >
>
>
Yea, the only thing I don't like about it is that you can't really configure
the output. What you get is what you get. With AcroBat, using it's
Distiller, you can change settings to make the PDF a high quality (large
size) or a lower quality (small size for web d/l).
--
Kevin Nehls
"KDC Consulting" wrote in message
news:883554D7D6EAE503B208C3719750EEEB@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> I'm digging the pdf system printer found at www.pdf995.com too.
If you go to the Add-a-plotter wizard, double click
on it, Select next, My computer, In the plotter model
dialog box, manufactuers section, select Acobe,
Models section, select PostScript level 1 plus, then
next, next, in the Ports dialog box select plot to
file, next and give your plotter a name. This will
create a .EPS file. Photo Shop can read a .EPS file.
