PDFs as graphics and graphics out of SolidWorks
Carole Johnson
Carole_Johnson at raytheon.com
Wed Apr 2 10:02:44 PDT 2008
How do you import them into FrameMaker? Do you link or what!
"Art Campbell" <art.campbell at gmail.com>
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03/11/2008 03:47 PM
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"Linda G. Gallagher" <lindag at techcomplus.com>
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Re: PDFs as graphics and graphics out of SolidWorks
I just ended a year-long gig that included this, and the workflow we
developed was:
1. Get the free Solidworks viewer application. (There's a free
explorer tool that's also useful.)
2. From the Viewer, print the Solidworks file to an Acrobat printer
instance to create a PDF using the appropriate job options (high
quality print, press quality) .
3. When the PDF opens in Acrobat, optimize the file, but go easy on
the compression and downsampling. This is the key task to reduce the
file size & bloat. I don't think it would work as well on a PDF
produced directly from
4. Import into FM.
I don't have any idea if Acrobat 6 is up to the task. We used 7 pro,
and migrated to 8 pro and then 8 3D. So that would be the component
I'd upgrade.
Art
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Linda G. Gallagher
<lindag at techcomplus.com> wrote:
> Framers,
>
> FM 7.0
> Acrobat 6.0
> Win XP
>
> I appreciated all the help a couple of weeks ago on text insets and
> scripting. Now I have new questions related to a new client that is
using
> SolidWorks CAD to create graphics for me to use in FM.
>
> So far I've tried importing graphics saved from SolidWorks as .tif at
50 dpi
> (was the default) and 600 dpi. Neither looked good after I created a
PDF
> from the FM file. I've asked him to save at 150 and 300 dpi, but don't
have
> those yet.
>
> My client also sent me a PDF of the graphic. When I imported that into
FM
> and created a PDF, the graphic looked great, but it took 8 minutes to
create
> the .ps file of just the one page with the one graphic and the
resulting .ps
> file was more than 55 MB. I envision having lots of graphics in this
> document, so I don't think the PDF format is going to work that well.
>
> Here are my specific questions.
>
> - Is it common when using PDF files for graphics for the writing to .ps
> process to take so long and for the resulting .ps file to be so huge?
>
> - Anyone have experience getting graphics from SolidWorks? I'm told the
> graphic formats it can produce are .tif, .PDF, .jpg, and .dwg.
>
> Thanks for any advice you can offer.
>
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