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Exporting a TIFF

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 12:37:22 GMT

What i need:

i need to export a TIFF file at a decent dpi, and it needs to be scaled to the layout.

Printing companies work best with tiff files (so they are saying). Currently we are giving them .pdf files (which have layers) ... they convert them to tiffs ... print and return... to cut down on lead time... i need to give them tiffs

the tiffs coming out of archicad 11 now are at a poor graphic quality and not to scale

I know i can publish pdfs and convert them in photoshop... but this is an extra step i would like to avoid (200 sheets is a lot to convert one at a time)

HELP!

Re: Exporting a TIFF

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:12:06 GMT

Use a graphic converter software. There are many that are freeware and gets the job done. I remember trying to save a layout in tiff format with the correct scale/quality but had ended up to be a ridiculously large file for just one layout. And it had required me to actually do it one by one if I were to do it for all the layouts.

So back to the point, do as you would do and publish to pdf. You can do this as a batch. And then use a graphic converter software (freeware available - If on Mac, use Graphic Converter v5.6, I believe...I am sure there is one for windows xp/vista) to convert all your pdfs into tiff in one click. You can adjust settings to your preference choice before you do the batch conversion. Perhaps practice with one layout first till you nail it down, and then do the whole thing.

Re: Exporting a TIFF

Dwight — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:42:58 GMT

I'm sorry to not have any further suggestions on this matter, but it concerns me that your printer can't easily cope with PDF, [Portable Document Format] a format intended to be universally printed.

Are these guys the only game on your planet?

What kind of files are you sending them? plans, like?

Re: Exporting a TIFF

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:15:40 GMT

dwight-

we are giving the print company .pdfs of an entire set of drawings (200 pages; 24" x 36" sheet size; everything from site plans, to section details)

They say: all the layers created in the .pdfs crash their machines... they convert the .pdfs to .tiffs with Reprodisk... this processes adds anywhere from 1 to 3 hrs to the lead time.

I wanted to expedite the process of converting files and hand them .tiffs.
Although, if it requires me to waste 1 to 3 hrs converting .pdfs to .tiffs it defeats the purpose all together.

WISH: I want to be able to create a .tiff directly from archicad 11 that is to scale and at a decent dpi.

Re: Exporting a TIFF

Rick Thompson — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:28:38 GMT

Have you tried plotting to file, and sending the .plt file? You could set up your plot file to their driver. That usually works.

Re: Exporting a TIFF

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:42:48 GMT

junior -

all the graphic converters i am finding so far do not support .pdf format

Re: Exporting a TIFF

Jere — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:40:13 GMT

purchase Adobe Acrobat. Print to Adobe PDF.

I had problems with the PDF's made from ArchiCAD as well. Using Adobe's print driver solved everything and made the file sizes about 1/3 the size. This was with 10; so I'm not sure if things are better in 11.

Re: Exporting a TIFF

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:19:49 GMT

Kbot373 wrote:
junior -

all the graphic converters i am finding so far do not support .pdf format

What operating system are you using?

Re: Exporting a TIFF

Erika Epstein — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:01:09 GMT

There is also an option within Adobe Acrobat under FILE to REDUCE FILE SIZE.

If you do a search Djordje discussed this elsewhere.

Re: Exporting a TIFF

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:00:15 GMT

Before purchasing Acrobat - try another PDF printer rather than the default Archicad one - try CutePDF for windows.

Also telling us what operating system (as Junior has already asked) might help us solve your problem.

Also - as Dwight said - is this the only printshop in town? If not try another one, PDFs should not be a problem for a decent printing place.

Re: Exporting a TIFF

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:21:06 GMT

And if you have Photoshop, why not set up an Action to batch process your files - takes about 5 minutes. You can then apply the action to a whole folder of images. No separate conversion software needed, if all your PDFs have but one page.

Anssi

Re: Exporting a TIFF

Laura Yanoviak — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:31:18 GMT

We have encountered a similar problem with a print shop that cannot print our PDFs created by AC11 (they also say they "crash their machines"). They've had no problems in the past printing PDFs created by AC10. One suggestion was to create TIFFs from the PDFs, but that is undesirable (as per the original post).

One noticeable difference is the "PDF Producer" listed within the Properties dialog of each PDF: AC10 has "ArchiCAD", while AC11 has "PDFTron PDFNet".

We do have Acrobat Professional, and are now printing to Adobe PDF instead of saving as a PDF. We can then create a single PDF from the multiple PDFs. Ideally, we'd like to continue to use ACs PDF creator, Merge Layouts into a single PDF, and avoid the extra step(s), so if anyone can shed any additional light on the issue...