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nofear
17th Apr 2005, 11:17 am
is it possible to import or open an PDF file containing drawings in autocad 2000. if yes please tell me how?
my mail id is dhanjal1205@hotmail.com
f700es
17th Apr 2005, 04:52 pm
is it possible to import or open an PDF file containing drawings in autocad 2000. if yes please tell me how?
my mail id is dhanjal1205@hotmail.com

Welcome nofear, as a quick answer - no. you can't open or import a PDF into autocad but you can open the PDF in either Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw and then export it out from there as a .dwg (AutoCAD file). If you only need this once e-mail me the file or you can download a 30 day demo of Illustrator and try it yourself. Good luck :)

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LSR
22nd Apr 2005, 03:38 am
Actually you can. In Acrobat reader there is a snapshot tool (icon is like a camera) that you can use. What it does is like cut and paste to the clipboard. Open the Autocad, use the copy to clipboard command and you have OLE object.

Cheers, :D

LSR (a newbie)
f700es
22nd Apr 2005, 10:43 am
Actually you can. In Acrobat reader there is a snapshot tool (icon is like a camera) that you can use. What it does is like cut and paste to the clipboard. Open the Autocad, use the copy to clipboard command and you have OLE object.

Cheers, :D

LSR (a newbie)

Sure but you can't edit it. ;)
ORgrown
26th Apr 2005, 07:35 pm
Can't edit it, but CAN trace over it...then edit. I do this with .TIF files which are inserted as raster image...scale it/line it up/trace over it...shazam, you're ready to edit.
f700es
26th Apr 2005, 08:07 pm
Can't edit it, but CAN trace over it...then edit. I do this with .TIF files which are inserted as raster image...scale it/line it up/trace over it...shazam, you're ready to edit.

but..most of the time PDFs will still be vector files, correct? If so why trace over when you can convert, scale and be done with it? Sure, the PDFs that are raster files have to be traced over. ;)
fuccaro
27th Apr 2005, 05:53 am
The subject of raster to vector conversion was cowered in this forum.
Until now I didn't fuond a perfect program. After the trace operation your job just begins. But it is better as doing all the job with hand.
Cadastrophic
29th Apr 2005, 08:22 am
...you can't open or import a PDF into AutoCAD but you can open the PDF in either Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw and then export it out from there as a .dwg (AutoCAD file).
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I just tried this and all that happened was I ended up with an image in AutoCAD that doesn't appear to be any different than if I had inserted any other uneditable raster image. I would have thought "save as .dwg" would have been exactly that.
What am I missing? :huh:
fuccaro
29th Apr 2005, 10:08 am
The images in PDF documents can be in both raster and vector format. I can see no reason why to send a CAD drawing as bitmap but it is perfectly possible. I assume it depends on what program was used to create the PDF.
Well, you can trace the drawing. Wintopo is a free program availabel on the net, also Corel Trace can be used. For sure you will have to finish the work yourself :(