xgarcia Posted May 3, 2003 Share Posted May 3, 2003 I can not see to find my pdf printer in the ACAD2000 printer setup. You mentioned you need Adobe distiller for this? By the way - the uncompressed TIFF printer comes out horrible. The eps>illustrator>tiff>photoshop route is cleaner. ON another note...I have a friend here at school who swears by Corel Draw. Functions much the same as Illustrator in that it will open an eps or dwg file and keep it in vector format (photoshop rasterizes). With corel you can snap to vertexes to do plan shading or whatever. [ May 03, 2003, 09:34 AM: Message edited by: xgarcia ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kid Posted May 3, 2003 Share Posted May 3, 2003 yeah, you need Adobe Acrobat (not reader) installed on your machine. This creates two printer types, PDF Writer and Distiller. This is by far the best way to get line drawings into photoshop as it only rasterises on import into photoshop, and it asks at what dpi you'd like it rasterised at...very easy and very clean. This was brought in using .pdf, and at full resolution (saved small for web here) the linework when printed comes out as clean and sharp as if printed straight from acad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgarcia Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 Originally posted by kid: it only rasterises on import into photoshop, and it asks at what dpi you'd like it rasterised at...very easy and very cleanSame thing happens when you plot to EPS file and open in photoshop...about the same quality I think. I keep hearing wonders about Corel-Draw working with eps files. Check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LivinOnTheEdge Posted May 16, 2003 Share Posted May 16, 2003 Originally posted by STRAT: Kaos - you can do that but you get the same problem as described in the above mentioned thread - the resolution is crap because you cant control the dpi, no matter how big the pixel size may be. Just use illustrator. Export from autocad as eps. open it in illustrator, and export to photoshop. You can set your dpi too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted May 17, 2003 Author Share Posted May 17, 2003 LOTE - that is true. the point of this thread was also to look at the best methods from Acad > Photoshop even if you dont own illustrator (which i dont) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rigged Posted May 19, 2003 Share Posted May 19, 2003 This is the way i do it: I've added a virtual Postscript plotter to Autocad; added with the add plotter wizzard. Adobe > postscript 2 plotter Now I can create a plotfile in .eps format > pot to file with the new virual postscript polter. This format is a vector graphic format, witch meens resolution indipendent. I can load it in Photoshop and define its resolution later. 1200 Dpi or such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted May 19, 2003 Author Share Posted May 19, 2003 Rigged - thats the solution i said in the first post in this thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingeldar Posted February 8, 2004 Share Posted February 8, 2004 usually i use a postscript 1 to print a file un eps format (a0 or a1) then open it in photoshop 300 or 600 dpi (a bit long...) very good quality drawing to add color and then resize.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingeldar Posted February 8, 2004 Share Posted February 8, 2004 oups i hadn't read all pages... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buttman Posted February 9, 2004 Share Posted February 9, 2004 I've tried that way but overall, it's not clear like from DWG file. Any solution? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted February 9, 2004 Author Share Posted February 9, 2004 how big are you trying to convert to? follow the same instructions only up the res. do it correctly it DOES work, i assure you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buttman Posted February 9, 2004 Share Posted February 9, 2004 Yup, it's still the same. It's not crisp at all. It is a tad clear but not crisp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizzy Posted February 10, 2004 Share Posted February 10, 2004 My way to do this is through PDF's. It works like a normal printer so the pen-widths are the same. If you don't have Acrobat Writer, then you could download dialux since that comes with a free PDF printer. And the nice thing is: its resolution independant just like .eps I do regognize the problems above with eps. I never could get nice results with it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaPixel Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 Max out your view resolution in Acad before you create the EPS file then it shouldn't look like a "low poly" segmented pline when you view it in Photoshop. If however this still doesn't work, there is a trick I use in Photoshop where I select the outer boundries of the imported EPS layer, Smooth my selection by 1 or 2 pixels and then re-stroke the selection on a new layer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upshot Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 Been using this technique with flawless results for years... Lineweights! yahoo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gitano_anton Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 It´s simple save the drawing normally (*.dwg). import it in Coreldraw ( vectorial format). Export only selected to a bitmap format such as tiff. Other way is: Select your drawing in Autocad and paste it into corel as binary exchange format. Explode it and select all the lines and delete the rest. Change the color of the lines to your chosen color. Hope this helps. Pepe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy L Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 appreciate it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Posted February 19, 2005 Share Posted February 19, 2005 PDF is the way to go. Been using the process for years. Never a problem and a lot of control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aussie Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 I save as a .pdf or .eps file under the print display box, that way my line weights and scale are set. Works great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mane Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 I know this is an ancient thread, but there has always been a Plotter that you can add to AutoCAD, it outputs images at any pixel ratio upto 8000x8000 pixels. All you do in Photoshop is define the aspect for dpi. In Autocad, Options, Plotting, Add Plotters, My Computer, Raster File Formats. Pick one and then add a Custom Paper Size. Options are galore, so go through them as needed. This has been available since around AutoCAD 11. I use it on every version I encounter although I don't know if they took it out of 2004/2005 since we haven't loaded those at work. We'll move to 2006 when that comes in. Maneswar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyThomas Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 Don't know who started this, I haven't seen all of this thread so I hope this fits. Do you not have a jgp plotter in ACAD? I just plot to jpg, setting the resolution (no of pixels x no of pixels) in the custom paper size. Techy in our office says the jpg plotter is just part of the normal plotters given with ACAD. Note that if you increase the resolution, more x more pixels, the resultant image has more detail, is smoother, finer, when you zoom in but is pretty light to view if for example you are using the image for a Powerpoint presentation. I have found the coarser image better for things like that because it holds some weight when you are not zooming in. Alternatively - use pdf's as I see people have said. I have only just started using photoshop so will give it a go myself. I know pdf's are good for keeping hold of lineweights etc. Best of luck. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izrut Posted May 17, 2005 Share Posted May 17, 2005 All you need to know about -->Autocad to Photoshop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piotrgreg Posted May 24, 2005 Share Posted May 24, 2005 When I hear "COREL" I wonder what was it invented for?, any idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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