ole pdf text quality

[Anonymous]

I have an ole pdf in an LT 2006 drawing. What can be done to reduce or eliminate the "rastery" or "choppy" look to what I see. Is there any way to make it look and plot as it does when I print it out directly as a pdf?

Eric

[Anonymous]

Did you have to scale it when you brought it in?

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Dean Saadallah
http://LTisACAD.blogspot.com
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[Anonymous]

No, it was not scaled when it was inserted. The drawing in question is attached.

Here is the sequence:

1) "S7" was originally drawn in AutoCAD as CAD
2) I used cutePDF to create a pdf of "S7"
3) I inserted (OLE, no scaling) the "S7" pdf into a blank drawing which is what you see in the attachment

Question - can the "choppiness" of the lines/text be improved? Thank you.

Eric Edited by: ericlrice60 on Oct 27, 2009 1:38 PM

[Charles_Shade]

no attachment...

[Anonymous]

ericlrice60 wrote:

> Question - can the "choppiness" of the lines/text be improved?

This is a problem built into OLE (especially PDFs). You are probably
seeing something similar to the top part of this picture.

http://www.dotsoft.com/files/pdfimport-vs-acadole.png

While there may be some settings to improve it somewhat, if you want
really high quality content you need to convert it to a DWG/DXF with a
tool like http://www.dotsoft.com/pdf2dwg.htm.

Terry

[Anonymous]

Thank you. That'll save me a lot of spinning my wheels. What are people doing typically that want to transmit dwgs that contain a professional engineer's electronic stamp and at the same time protect themselves from future alteration of the drawing and illegal reuse? Is there a way short of getting into digital signatures?

Eric

[Anonymous]

PDF Reader, in fact all PDF products from Adobe, do this image fudge thing
to speed up their exceptionally slow application.

The trick is to zoom real tight to the object you wish to cut out, then
select with the camera icon and window to the other side (takes a while) to
capture the pdf image. Then you can paste in LT and it should be fine.
Alternatively, crank up the display resolution in the reader real high
(expect a performance hit) and do it without zooming in. Works too.

--
Dean Saadallah
http://LTisACAD.blogspot.com
--

[Anonymous]

ericlrice60 wrote:

> Is there a way short of getting into digital signatures?

Don't know much about those. But what I do know is that PDF is an open
documented format, so there is no protection in PDF.

Terry