Coversions from cad to photohop cs3

[Anonymous]

i am in need of some help in taking a cad file from land desktop 2004 and inserting / converting into photoshop cs3 drawing with the least loss of clarity. i was initially informed to create all cad drawings into PDFs and then insert them but i don't think photoshop accepts PDfs and if it does there must be a better and easier way
please help

[Anonymous]

As this is more a type of "vanilla" AutoCAD type of query, than a LDT query,
I went on over to the AutoCAD DG, and did a search using "photoshop" - w/o
quotes - and found quite a file tips to Export to Photoshop cadmonster:
http://tinyurl.com/2c274y

That tinyurl has the 74 results from my Search, but I'm thinking you'll find
the guidance you seek from the 1st page.

HTH

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wrote in message news:5578424@discussion.autodesk.com...
i am in need of some help in taking a cad file from land desktop 2004 and
inserting / converting into photoshop cs3 drawing with the least loss of
clarity. i was initially informed to create all cad drawings into PDFs and
then insert them but i don't think photoshop accepts PDfs and if it does
there must be a better and easier way
please help

[Anonymous]

thanks Don that was a huge help every one i speak to gives me conflicting opinions and all i really want to knowis how to do it and how to do it with the best quality possible, for portfolio reasons
thanks again for all your help

[Anonymous]

You can plot to a full size PDF, and then use Adobe Acrobat (full version)
to save it as a TIF image. I find this retains the best line quality.
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wrote in message news:5578653@discussion.autodesk.com...
thanks Don that was a huge help every one i speak to gives me conflicting
opinions and all i really want to knowis how to do it and how to do it with
the best quality possible, for portfolio reasons
thanks again for all your help

[Anonymous]

i usually like to make a PDF from CAD and pull it into Photoshop as a PDF, then save it to a TIFF when im done messing with it. i do graphics and 3D for my company so when im bring in a drawing into photoshop im probably going to want to change the background or something. opening the PDF in photoshop retains the background transparency so it is easier to overlay or change the underlying color.