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I think the 1st part of my question about printing and plotters was not posted. Maybe my mistake. Anyway, I forgot what the first part of my question was. I think basically I'm trying to get as good of quality as the original Punch drawing for printing 36 x 24. I seemed to be getting there. I noticed the elevation editor does not generate as good of quality as floor plan and framing editor. I did find a free PDF converter, though. It's called PrimoPDF.
Also, is the floor plan the only part of the drawing I can convert to DWG or DXF?
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Hi Mark S Borders, The quality of the EE is related with the rendering quality. Of course, when you print the elevations (to PDF or other printer), you can select 3 different levels of quality Yes, you can export only the floorplans to DXF or DWG. However, if you get a Raster to Vector converter software, you can export also the elevations Hope this helps Patricia --> My website: www.punchhelpers.com--> My e-book: Learning Punch Software (R): Basic & Advanced Training --> My e-book: Learning Punch Software (R): Importing, Exporting and Printing --> My free e-book: Learning Punch Software (R): Mini - Tutorials --> My e-books free video presentation: Pat's e-books --> My Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/punchhelpers.links--> Twitter: Follow me on Twitter |
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I have 3 pdf exporters and I already converted the floor plan and elevation plan to pdf-36x24. I just need to work with the print emulater to get these drawings looking good. Im having a problem with getting the elevations to scale like the floor plan and framing plan, though. I can't "print to scale" like in floor plan and framing plan. It just fills the 36x24 view-not scaled. So I guess I have to cut and paste the elev. file as a jpg or pdf and shrink it. Also, if I make it to high quality, it freaks my computer out and if I use too low quality, it looks like crap. contd.....
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I wanted to add, that in framing editor, any text or foundation lines will not show in the pdf file. So I thought it was the pdf converter, so I printed one and the text that I inserted in framing editor does not print. Nor do the foundation lines. Nor do the stiffener beam lines.
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Answered below Patricia --> My website: www.punchhelpers.com--> My e-book: Learning Punch Software (R): Basic & Advanced Training --> My e-book: Learning Punch Software (R): Importing, Exporting and Printing --> My free e-book: Learning Punch Software (R): Mini - Tutorials --> My e-books free video presentation: Pat's e-books --> My Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/punchhelpers.links--> Twitter: Follow me on Twitter |
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Mark S Borders, I have 6 (paid) PDF converters and each one works in a different way. Some of them are useless. I have "Print to PDF" (BTW it came with Trojans included) and it don't print the elevations at all. I have PDF Master, it print the elevations, however the quality is poor. The PDF Writer (from Adobe) seems to be the better In my opinion, to obtain a good quality, you must adjust some settings - In Punch--> In the elevation editor, change the color of the lines (Options--> Screen color) to black, this will provide more contrast - In Punch--> In the elevation editor--> set the lighting features (the bulb icon at the left of the screen) in order to obtain a sharp definition - In your PDF converter--> set the quality of the output PDF documents--> at least 4800 dpi (dots per inch). Less than this looks blurry Regarding the lines and text disappearing in the PDF, this must be a setting in your PDF converter. It works in my converter (see attached) Did you try to print from the Layout Manager? Let us know if you need additional help Patricia --> My website: www.punchhelpers.com--> My e-book: Learning Punch Software (R): Basic & Advanced Training --> My e-book: Learning Punch Software (R): Importing, Exporting and Printing --> My free e-book: Learning Punch Software (R): Mini - Tutorials --> My e-books free video presentation: Pat's e-books --> My Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/punchhelpers.links--> Twitter: Follow me on Twitter |
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I'm trying the layout manager to format a couple elev. on 36x24 for the pdf converter. Working out ok but wouldn't it be nice to have dimension tools in layout manager? Also a "move to back/front" tool so when I scale the inserts, I don't cut off another.
thnaks for listening
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Good ideas! ;-) Patricia --> My website: www.punchhelpers.com--> My e-book: Learning Punch Software (R): Basic & Advanced Training --> My e-book: Learning Punch Software (R): Importing, Exporting and Printing --> My free e-book: Learning Punch Software (R): Mini - Tutorials --> My e-books free video presentation: Pat's e-books --> My Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/punchhelpers.links--> Twitter: Follow me on Twitter |
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