Exporting drawings as graphics files

[mrfrog]

I want to export my drawing files as some sort of picture. Everytime I try, the image quality is very poor. It seems to just take a snapshot of the screen, which is zoomed out to catch the entire drawing.


I was wondering if there was another format I should try, a setting I should fix, or if there was a program I could download.


What I have been doing that sort of works is exporting the drawing as a .dwg file and opening it in AutoCAD. From there I print it as a .png file or something. This is the best option that I have found, but I was wondering if there was anything better. Thanks in advance.

 

[AHA-D]

Print to PDF is the better solution for exchanging drawings for general use. It's broadly accepted and the quality is good. There are a number of free PDF-writers around, or you can go for the fullblown Acrobat Distiller.


Serves me well with my customers.


Alex

 

[Evil Flo]

You could also try to print it as a .eps file. Clean but Big.

 

[dr_gallup]

CGM is really good for importing into Word. Use the CGM plot driver. Or print to postscript (.ps) for archive, viewing and PDF creation.

 

[AHA-D]

Deep inside PDF is Postscript. Equals .ps or .eps.


Alex

 

[dr_gallup]

No, PDF is a compressed document format that was developed for small size and portability. Postscript is an ascii text based interpreted programing language. They were both developed by Adobe so there are some similarities but they are very different. PDF is typically 1/3 to 1/10 the file size but postscript will print 3 to 10 times faster. It also looks much sharper on the screen although that is a function of the resolution used when the ps is converted to PDF. EPS is encapsulated postscript for embedding into other document types.

 

[sohail abbas]

what about using the *.tif format to save and print the drawing in picture format,


One thing you should do here is to change the back ground of the dwg first then save as it in tif fomate, otherwise you will get the white line on black background.


so change this as black on white

 

[CJ]

We use TIFF, try adding the following to your config.pro to get high quality with low file size.


raster_plot_dpi 300
tiff_compression g4
tiff_type mono

 

[dr_gallup]

CGM just look better than TIFF IMO and is vector so it scales. TIFF is raster.

 

[CJ]

mrfrog didn't specify that scaling was required, just that a good quality image was required. I believe TIFF is best for this.<?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" />