OT: Technical illustrations - Outlining a line drawing

[Stuart Rogers]

David Spreadbury wrote:
> Since you said that you have Illustrator available. Open the SolidWorks PDF
> in Illustrator. Illustrator should recognize it as a vector image.
> 
> In Illustrator, select the objects you want and increase the line width to
> the desired thickness.
> 
> Export it as JPEG and you should have what you are looking for.

Sounds like good advice, except for the JPEG part.  JPEG (Joint 
Photographic Experts Group) is a format optimized for photographs, and 
should NEVER be used for any other graphic type (especially not for line 
drawings).  Better choices would be PNG, TIFF, PDF, or EPS.


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Stuart Rogers
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