Plotting to JPEG [Archive]

jmuva44

21st Jan 2003, 04:42 pm

Here is my problem. A customer wants to have an online catalog of our products. The drawings of the product must be in JPG format and downloadable for laptops. The filesize must be no more than 200 KB and fit nicely on the monitor without modification and print without modification. I have gotten it to do this by plotting to JPEG through AutoCAD and by plotting the drawings to the printer on good paper and then scanning them. My problem is that when I bring the resolution down to 100 dpi so that it fits on the screen and prints fully on one 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper, the quality is fairly poor. Is there a better way to go about doing this? We are about to just give the good quality hard copies to a company that will do this all for us but would rather not. By the way, I have AutoCAD 2002 and Photoshop 7.0. Thankyou for any help you can provide!!!!!

Mr T

21st Jan 2003, 10:07 pm

Maybe you should learn how to render. You can specify high quality JPEGS as ouptut.

OR

Take a screenshot !. Save as jpeg. Before screenshot make sure you set the screen res on your machine way up to 1280X1024. Then screenshot and save as *.jpg. Then tweak down to your size, laptop maybe just under 800X600 ?

Post for more help if this is not clear.

Nick

CADTutor

21st Jan 2003, 11:31 pm

Better still, plot to EPS and then you can control the quality of the finished image as it comes in to Photoshop. See http://www.cadtutor.net/acad/acad2ki/atop/atop.html for details.

jmuva44

22nd Jan 2003, 02:18 pm

Thanks for your reply. We have already proposed a JPEG to our customer with this technique. However, the results are less than adequate. I believe the quality that they are looking for is not quite attainable but thankyou for your help.

fuccaro

22nd Jan 2003, 02:33 pm

Jmuva44
Don't give up, I am sure that the problem can be solved. Sometime we just don�t realize how close the solution is.

gcp310

23rd Jan 2003, 07:06 am

whatabout a .png file, they look excellent and arnt too big either.
they are my choice when i want a drawing inserted into word.

G

andywilliams

10th Feb 2003, 01:53 pm

goto plotter manager on the file menu, add a new plotter wizard, click on my computer on the next box, select raster file formats on the following screen and then Independent JPEG Group printer. Just keep clicking next, and finally finish.

You will then be able to plot directly to a jpeg file.

This works in AutoCAD LT2000i, so should work fine