topic Re: JPG in archicad in Modeling

JPG in archicad

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:19:34 GMT

Hello.
I'm strugelling to safe my loyout book into the jpg format.
Is it possible?
I would like to use jpg of tiff ,bmp in my report as an attachement with some of the drawings.

Thanks

Re: JPG in archicad

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:40:24 GMT

Why not PDF?

Re: JPG in archicad

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:40:37 GMT

I need to do some work on them in Photoshop.

Re: JPG in archicad

Thomas Holm — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:43:04 GMT

Witek wrote:
I need to do some work on them in Photoshop.

You can open a pdf in Photoshop.

Re: JPG in archicad

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:08:33 GMT

Save directly Photoshop Image

Re: JPG in archicad

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:36:10 GMT

thanks
I have tried both solutions , but in both cases the quality was poor and the drawings' detail invisible.

Re: JPG in archicad

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:40:03 GMT

just got email from my friend: possible solution?!

Hooray
I worked out how to get PDFs into Word:

Get drawing onto screen (as large as possible) in Acrobat Viewer
Press Prt Scr button
Go to Word, and make Page Landscape format
Ctrl V to paste it
And there it is
Crop as necessary (or easier to crop in Photoshop?) [/size]

Re: JPG in archicad

Piotr Dobrowolski — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:09:19 GMT

Witek wrote:
thanks
I have tried both solutions , but in both cases the quality was poor and the drawings' detail invisible.

When opening PDF in PS - you have to set the DPI of rasterized image
You also have to set the proper DPI on PDF output in AC.
if You set it too low - You get poor quality.
BTW AFAIR the importing of PDFs work differenlty in oleder and newer PS.

Best regards,
Piotr

Re: JPG in archicad

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:25:15 GMT

Czesc

What is the best DPI for, say A3 size drawing with building details which you want to be able to read when printed on A4

Re: JPG in archicad

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:46:52 GMT

Witek wrote:
just got email from my friend: possible solution?!

Hooray
I worked out how to get PDFs into Word:

Get drawing onto screen (as large as possible) in Acrobat Viewer
Press Prt Scr button
Go to Word, and make Page Landscape format
Ctrl V to paste it
And there it is
Crop as necessary (or easier to crop in Photoshop?) [/size]

Don't do this - if you're worried about resolution/quality this is possibly the worst thing to do. The Print Screen button takes a screen shot at 72 dpi (Bad for printing.)

To print you should try and work with about 300dpi.

Re: JPG in archicad

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:08:42 GMT

Don't do this - if you're worried about resolution/quality this is possibly the worst thing to do. The Print Screen button takes a screen shot at 72 dpi (Bad for printing.)

To print you should try and work with about 300dpi

So how do you past the problem with 72 dpi? Where is the best place to change the resolution? In PS after or maybe you can change the Print Screen resolution?

Re: JPG in archicad

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:09:20 GMT

Tom wrote:
Witek wrote:
just got email from my friend: possible solution?!

Hooray

To print you should try and work with about 300dpi.

Exactly
More than 300dpi you can not differentiate with your human eyes.
And make the picture big and resize your picture with Photoshop.

Re: JPG in archicad

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:50:41 GMT

Witek wrote:
So how do you past the problem with 72 dpi? Where is the best place to change the resolution? In PS after or maybe you can change the Print Screen resolution?

You don't do the Print Screen option.

As Piotr said, try saving to PDF, and opening in Photoshop, when it asks you what DPI you want, say 300.

Or, as Archiuser 77 said, save from archicad as a .psd (Photoshop) file.

Avoid JPGs unless you are saving a rendered image. JPGs are for imags with graduated colours.

Re: JPG in archicad

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:49:52 GMT

Thank you everyone for help.