topic Re: Tiff images not plotting? fills on top of .Tiff image in Modeling

Tiff images not plotting? fills on top of .Tiff image

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:25:09 GMT

I have inserted .Tiff images in model space (In plan), I have added fills on top of the .Tiff images. I can see everything in model space. I created the view set and placed the the view on the sheet. Everything looks good in paper space. When I plot I can only see the fills and no the background .Tiff.
Is there a setting I am missing for transparency? Is my pen set wrong?
Need help.
Thx,

Re: Tiff images not plotting? fills on top of .Tiff image

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:58:50 GMT

Are the TIFFs not plotting at all or just where they are obscured by fills?

Re: Tiff images not plotting? fills on top of .Tiff image

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:48:57 GMT

amadoraaa wrote:
...model space ... paper space...
Need help.
Thx,

I think you want the AutoCAD forum

Re: Tiff images not plotting? fills on top of .Tiff image

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:28:12 GMT

Hello Again,
I am not using AutoCAD but rather ArchiCAD. (Thx for the rude comment)
The .tiff images are not plotting at all. I can see the fills over the tiffs which are plotting fine.
I have gone back and turned the .tiff images from a bitmap to a gray scale image. That seemed to help but it will only plot sometime. Once I went to save it told me there was not enough memory in the heap zone.
I shall play with this some more...
Any other suggestions would be helpful.
Thx,

Re: Tiff images not plotting? fills on top of .Tiff image

Aaron Bourgoin — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:44:26 GMT

Is this an example of this problem?

http://www.archicadwiki.com/Bugs/Drawings_with_images_do_not_print

Re: Tiff images not plotting? fills on top of .Tiff image

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:01:13 GMT

Still have the problem. Going to try to convert the image to a JPEG.
Any advise would still be helpful.
Thx,

Re: Tiff images not plotting? fills on top of .Tiff image

Rick Thompson — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:04:09 GMT

Probably not it, but I was having problems plotting tiffs until I started "bringing to front" the image, which was on a master sheet. You case sounds different, but just in case...

Re: Tiff images not plotting? fills on top of .Tiff image

Steve Jepson — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:07:39 GMT

Do you have the same problem if you print to .pdf first ? Then print the .pdf?

Re: Tiff images not plotting? fills on top of .Tiff image

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:08:03 GMT

Converting the .Tiff file to a .Jpeg seemed to do the trick. I have been printing to .pdf everytime in order to conserve paper.
Thanks for all the help.
Cheers,

Re: Tiff images not plotting? fills on top of .Tiff image

David Bearss — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:53:20 GMT

I have had problems printing tiff images to pdf in the past and found that png format is more universal and seems to work well. Still have an occasional situation where the image shows in the pdf but is dropped in the printing. Creates some confusing phone conversations when I send the pdf files to be printed and the contractor calls looking for the dropped detail.

Re: Tiff images not plotting? fills on top of .Tiff image

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:59:37 GMT

I have a continuous peoblem with imported pdf's showing partially. It is a nightmare. I am creating modes from word and printing to pdf. Does not matter how a pdf is created Mac or Adobe. The only wat is ti screen capture and paste but the result is low grade.

Re: Tiff images not plotting? fills on top of .Tiff image

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:11:39 GMT

forget to add

Plotter HP1050c
MAC 10.4.10
G5 and intel

DANGER - with no plotting pdf's AC unfit for use

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:31:09 GMT

I finally took the time to test why I could not plot reliably pdf’s imported in layout. Reliably means parts are constantly missing from pdf’s.

I have tested this with a G5 and a MAC Book Pro.

I am using AC 10 MAC 10.4.10. HP1050C (I have 11 but after reading the reviews considered much to disruptive and costly to change)

This is the way I did the test:

New and reset
Create a C Blank C size master

Import a (2) page PDF created with Adobe printer created from Reader 8
Move images close the pdf so the (2) touch and scale to 90%
It will fail plotting one of the pages or part of one.

Sure if you do not touch the imported pdf it will plot but then try moving the pdf’s it or close and open the pln and it would not work.

I have tier al available methods of creating the PDF MAC save to PDF etc.

In light of the above GS should post and publish a worming of unreliability. What they did of not warning us is criminally negligent.

Re: Tiff images not plotting? fills on top of .Tiff image

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:42:09 GMT

I have continued the test and noticed that when pdfs touch or are overlapped the 2nd inserted does not print. Separating the pdfs and rebuilding will print again. This was possible only on a new and reset test pln in an exciting no matter what it will give errors.

GS must be forced to acknowledge and correct this in all versions.

Re: Tiff images not plotting? fills on top of .Tiff image

Rakela Raul — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:49:36 GMT

Albert,

I have an HP1050cm and a HP 4000, listen to this: I have had problems
since day one printing my layout that contains pdfs, tiff, bmps and STUFF
......i moved the project to AC11 and 'EUREKA'..all problems with printing went away.