Inserting pdf into AutoCAD 2010

Hey guys,

I need some help/suggestions on inseting a pdf into a drawing. I can insert it, but it doesn't look very good. Am I missing a setting or do you just have to live with it being grainy.

Thanks for any help you can give on this matter.

the quality of the PDF depends on how the PDF was made, so if it's a PDF that you where given, there is not much you can do.

What are you going to do with the PDF?

It is a pdf that was sent to me that needs to be shown on a set of vendor drawings we are doing. We were going to just show the pdf, to save some time, but the quality isn't very good.

yeah, I have never managed to get a PDF in a good enough quality to show as background in drawings. I have always traced them myself and used the tracing as the background.

Tracing does not take that much time, depending on what is on the PDF ofcourse, but it is basically drawing lines.

Doing a trace over the pdf is what I thought we would have to do, but I thought I would get some other opinions first.

Thanks for your help Tiger.

happy to help, even if this was slim help :wink:

I'm using Adobe Pro, open the *.pdf and you can save as a *.jpg.

The *.pdf was created in AutoCAD '05. Scaned images are horrible if you require quality in your *.dwg file.

Might improve the image some(?). Here's one I just did for show 'n tell.

Images_AutoCAD.pdf

Thanks for the suggestion Tank. We'll give it a try.

If you have adobe illustrator, you can open the pdf there and export it to a dwg. This has always worked well for me.

I don't have Adobe Illustrator but, I'm going to take a peek-a-boo at it.

Using Adobe Pro I can save as a *.png, *.jpg, and more.

Thanks mnewsum for the heads up!

You could try using a pdf to dxf converter.

Here is a link to the 30 day trial download for a decent one

http://www.pdf-fly.com/try-PDF-FLY.htm