translating plans for desktop publishing

[Anonymous]

I would like to save some plan drawings and a couple of elevations for use in a printed brochure. I have read other queries on this topic and see that saving as EPS seems to be the trick. In Archicad 8.1 how do you save to EPS as it is not in the supported list in save us, nor is it in the publisher list.

I tried zooming in and saving as jpeg but it still blotches out. The graphic designers want me to save as photoshop files but the quality is nothing like the original Archicad version.

Any ideas?

[Ralph Wessel]

jazzdude wrote:
In Archicad 8.1 how do you save to EPS as it is not in the supported list in save us, nor is it in the publisher list.

How about using a printer driver which generates PostScript and specify that the printing output should go to a file?

[Eduardo Rolon]

The best option is to print to PDF from either windows or mac OS and Photoshop will open the file and since it is vector drawing (resolution independent) the graphic designer can choose the resolution he wants to work with.

[stefan]

Print to PDF or PostScript and you can open it in Illustrator or CorelDRAW or similar Vectorial applications too.

Or in Photoshop, if you don't need Vectors.

[Petros Ioannou]

Publish as encapsulated Postrcript from Plotmaker?

Petros

[Anonymous]

Petros wrote:
Publish as encapsulated Postrcript from Plotmaker?

Petros

Yes (at least I assume it is still possible in PM3).

You can also print to a file from most (if not all) Postscript printer drivers. This is standard on Macs; not as common on PCs.

[stefan]

Matthew wrote:
You can also print to a file from most (if not all) Postscript printer drivers. This is standard on Macs; not as common on PCs.

It usually works on PC too. You can install just one of the default printerdrivers and set it to print to file. The file will be named file.prn and if you change the name to file.ps it is usually a valid PS-file.

I had it happening once that I received a PRN file from a colleague and tried to rename it, but when checking the contents of the file, I noticed that it were valid Postscript instructions, but encapsulated in a HP-specific printcall (PCL-language). But Ghostscript could correctly translate it into a PDF-file.