off topic: e-drawings, eps files, frame and pdf

[Shmuel Wolfson]

  See if there is an option in Corel to flatten the layers. I think 
Visio gives you this option.
That might increase the rendering speed in the PDF.

Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133


On 18-Oct-10 11:27 AM, Jo Watkiss wrote:
> Thanks everybody for lots of advice and suggestions.
>
> We don't have access to Solidworks itself, only the 3D e-drawing (.easm)
> that is supplied by the project engineer. We use the Solidworks
> eDrawings Viewer to manipulate the model to get the illustration that we
> need. Unfortunately, if we want to export a vector, its 'all or nothing'
> - which is probably why the resulting image renders so slowly on screen.
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> I agree that in a perfect world the engineer would create all the
> illustrations we need as 2D PDFs directly from Solidworks; or we would
> have another Solidworks licence so that we could do it ourselves.  In
> our imperfect world, we have to make do with the eDrawing.
>
> I've concluded its best to use a bitmap wherever possible, and a vector
> only when absolutely necessary.
>
> Cheers,
> Jo
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