topic Re: pdfs - tiffs in Documentation

pdfs - tiffs

Anonymous — Fri, 19 May 2023 20:20:50 GMT

Is there a way i can publish flat pdfs in archicad
aka pdfs with no layers

or can I adjust the settings in the tiff format
when i publish a tiff... i want to be able to tell archicad to use the layout settings....

they publish 'not to scale'
and they include everything (information pulled to the side of the layout)

Thanks,
the bot

Re: pdfs - tiffs

Anonymous — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:41:33 GMT

What are you using to publish the PDFs? I thought if you did it through Archicad Publisher layers weren't retained, as in the PDFs are 'flat'.

If I've missed something and Archicad can publish layers in PDF, try a different PDF printer - cutePDF for windows or the built in one for Mac.

Re: pdfs - tiffs

Anonymous — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:54:02 GMT

pdfs publushed by ac are not "flat". Il you flatten them (with acrobat) their size reduce to ~1/10 of the original size.
And I think you will not find a free pdf driver that will flatten on the fly.

Re: pdfs - tiffs

Thomas Holm — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:45:19 GMT

Kbot373 wrote:
they publish 'not to scale'
and they include everything (information pulled to the side of the layout)

Sounds like you're Printing the layout (to a pdf file), not Publishing?

Re: pdfs - tiffs

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:43:07 GMT

i am using the publisher set and hitting publish... i assume that means i am publishing instead of printing.... i think if i print to pdf the file becomes flat.... but i have about 150 pages in the set and that would be highly time consuming to print each page...

ultimately i would like to have tiffs (rather my print company and consultants would like to have tiffs)

right now my only (an fastest) solution in 'batch' converting my files is to bind all the pdfs from archicad in acrobat... then export or save as... tiffs
the only problem with this is... the tiff files saved are named: (file name) page 1, (file name) page 2, ect
aka they don't keep the integrity of the names from the original set

ideally i would like to make printable, to scale tiff directly from AC's publisher

is that a lot to ask?

::::frustrated::::confused::::

::kbot::

Re: pdfs - tiffs

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:49:17 GMT

Have been having similar problems with repro firms here. (Or repro firms are having the problem) Publishing tiffs from ArchiCAD is not the answer. Quality unacceptable at repro end.

Publishing PDF's still the way to go, but depending on project size, amounts of fills, external drawings (particularly full sheet pdfs from consultants) sheet size etc, whether to publish individually or as a set it still a judgement call.

If you select at folder level in publisher you can check the box to merge all drawings into one file. Be advised though with a large drawing set it may take overnight to publish and overnight for the printer to process.

Re: pdfs - tiffs

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:44:19 GMT

getting a bounded pdf is not the problem... i don't really need to make one file with all the pdfs in it from archicad... it take 2 seconds in acrobat... my problem with that is: when i do bind the pdfs and re-save/export as tiffs i lose the individual file names...
page 1.tiff
page 2.tiff
page 3.tiff