Put a PDF file into a pro-e drawing

[fmcdougle]

I am trying to geta PDF file into a pro-e drawing cleanly.


Iam able to PDF into the drawing but the final image is kind of washed out.



I have Adobe Acrobat distiller, Corel draw. But with all of this I
still can't get a good clean images into the pro drawing.



I start in the excel spreadsheet.



Select the cells of the table I need, print to Acrobat. When it is
open in Acrobat I select the table with the Graphics select tool. I
pick edit copy.



I then open Corel draw, past in the image. Save this as a corel
file.



I open the pro drawing, insert object, browse to the Corel file,
select OK and it inserts.



I drag the image to size it.



This all works well but the image is a little fussy.



Another method is to use a camera tool in excel, go straight to Corel,
it comes in very clear in Corel, But I can't get it to load into the drawing.



Hopefully there is a better way that I don't know about.



Any one know one?



Frank

 

[audctrl]

Have you tried importing it as a .bmp or tiff?

 

[fmcdougle]

When it comes in as a .bmp it loads the program into the pro-e drawing that was used to make the bitmap. Just will not work for me. Loading in a tiff just gets me the tiff icon,bring in a pdf also loads the adobe icon. If I select the icons it then opens the file I want in the drawing but its opened into the parent program.

 

[audctrl]

It should load Paint into the drawing and if you double click on the image it will activate the Paint program. Typically what we do here is create a bmp (by various means) then in Pro Insert>Object>Create from File and browse to the location of the bitmap (the Link box is not checked). And our drawings turn out pretty clear. Then what we do for a viewable is to plot that drawing with image as a pdf. Viewables for regular drawings are currently hpgl files, but we have plans to switch those over to pdf as well, so all viewables will be pdf documents.

 

[fmcdougle]

Audctrl,


I tried your medthod of using paint to make a bitmap, then insert into the drawing it worked very well.


thank you so much for your help


Frank

 

[fmcdougle]

I want to let you know what I finally came up with to get the Excel Spread Sheet into a Pro-e Drawing. The Excel Spread Sheet was originaly made into the PDF. I found a better way.
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1. In the spreadsheet select the entire table, then select the Icon of a Camera.

 

[audctrl]

I'd suggest saving these steps to a text document or something. Someone is bound to ask this question again...