bjenk8100 Posted January 6, 2011 Posted January 6, 2011 Hello, Haven't heard from me for awhile, I must be getting the hang of it, lol. Anyway, I am having some difficulties with attaching pdfs to my drawings in autocad 2011. Everything looks fine and everything but the files are enormous and my plotter takes forever to plot cause of the file size I think. Is there another way to get pdf images onto my drawings without this problem. My only alternative right now is attach pdfs to my drawing and then print to file again and make it into one pdf. Quality takes a turn for the worst though. Any feedback would be great. tnx Quote
Ryder76 Posted January 6, 2011 Posted January 6, 2011 Convert your pdf to a dwg; cut and paste into dwg; purge; save; plot. There are pdf to dwg converters on the internet that will let you have a trial run. I use this one... http://anydwg.com/pdf-to-dwg.html Quote
JimB Posted January 6, 2011 Posted January 6, 2011 Another thing I do often is I screen capture a large file and just paste it into a word file or what ever then print it off as a pdf then send on to who ever. This is REALL REALL FAST and I do it often and it works reall well. Then when I'm actually ready to print 'say' last print fianal presentation I'll do the long wait and print of as you are. You'll have alot of success and save your self many hours using the screen capture I've just suggested particulalry when dealing with 'pdfs'. I use software called 'snipping tool' it simple and can capture on your screen what ever 'region' you want example exact screen or layout with Auto Cad. Hope thats some help to you. Quote
bjenk8100 Posted January 10, 2011 Author Posted January 10, 2011 screen capture = print to screen? Quote
JimB Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 No What I do often is utilising a 'screen capture tool' like 'snipping tool' enables you to capture rectangular potions of any single part of your screen, any size. I simply zoom out in Cad (the bigger the picture the better the quallity. Capture the image exactly where I want (its very easy and takes seconds to do) and then simply 'copy' it and past it into a word open blank doc or where ever else I want including straight into an Email if you wanted to. It takes seconds look into it. If you want send waht you've captured in a pdf to someone simply print your word file as pdf. If you do that you'll print your pdf in about a 10th of the time to what you normally might have to wait for. In fact I've just proved this proceedure today again. Example. sent a huge file 12meg to a freind that I wnated him to print in colour ( I don't have a clour printer I don't normally need it.) he ring me here later today he phoned and complained about eh size of teh file I said I'm really sorry . Whilst he was on the phone I did all teh baove inmaybe 10 seconds and sent it to him. Now when he arrived he had in fact printed both copies the large file and the small. The amzing thing was you couldn't tell the difference between them.... anyway the quality is prtty good. Find a 'Screen Capture' software liek I've explained you'll never look back on it particulalry for wha tyou want o do. Good luck with it ... let us know how you get on. Quote
JimB Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 I'm going to post acouple of examples of wha ti mean. So you can see wah ti'm doing .... give us minute I'm opening Cad now.... Quote
Tyke Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 No, you take a snapshot of what your screen looks like at the moment. If you have two windows open, say Excel and AutoCAD, side by side and you press the "Print" button on the same row of buttons as the F buttons, then open an image editor, say IrfanView, or Paint, or Photoshop and press Ctrl+V (to paste the image), then you will get a full screen shot, however if you first click in say the AutoCAD window and press Alt+Print then paste that into the image editor, then you get just a screen shot of just that window. If you want to get fancy you can window part of your screen shot in your image editor and copy that out and paste it into say Worde or Excel, or even AutoCAD. I've even pasted it into an email, to get a quick feedback from a client without having to created PDFs or whatever. Be adventurous :wink: Quote
JimB Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 Now you can see how from this folder that is over a GIG in size (if I wan to print takes ages but these things are tiny. And I can capture waht ever I want and just paste.... Quote
Cadax Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 You can also try converting your .pdf files to .png files and inserting them via the IMAGE command. This will keep your dwg size very small and printing should be much faster. I've found this to be quite useful and they stay very clean and legible. Quote
rkent Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 screen capture = print to screen? Win7 has a built-in snipping tool. Quote
YZ Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 bjenk8100, does the PDF have multiple pages? I have seen this same problem and it turned out I had done an IMAGEATTACH with the first page of a 2 page PDF. AutoCAD took a long time to print and the file size was huge. I ran the page I wanted back through a PDF creator and then attached it again and it worked smoothly. There are also programs like Peernet's "Raster Image Creator" that can write a PDF or TIF with smaller resolutions so you can shrink the file size that way. I have found that JPEGs work the best out of all the file formats to attach into AutoCAD. Quote
bjenk8100 Posted January 12, 2011 Author Posted January 12, 2011 RKENT, very good that is a great windows feature i did not know about. no more of the print to screen and paste into paint. Thanks. Great feedback from everyone Quote
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