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Anonymous
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Does anyone know of a way to save plans or elevations to high resolution format that can be used in photoshop?

Everything I save as results in a very low quality image.
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aahatimo
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Brad wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to save plans or elevations to high resolution format that can be used in photoshop?
Everything I save as results in a very low quality image.
are there any advantages to saving a 3d view as a *.psd (photoshop) file? where would one use this ,psd file type?
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Karl Ottenstein
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My PDF tip got moved to the Tips & Tricks section. (Thanks for considering it 'worthy', Djordje. 😉)

Readers of this thread, see:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=2179#2179

Cheers,
Karl
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Djordje
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Karl wrote:
My PDF tip got moved to the Tips & Tricks section. (Thanks for considering it 'worthy', Djordje. 😉)

Readers of this thread, see:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=2179#2179
The PlotMaker will go there, too

Hint: no need to send your favourite tips to techtip@graphisoft.hu any more, the Tips of the month (still on!) are being chosen from the Tips&tricks forum.

So, if there IS a tip that I missed and you consider worthy, please send me a private message on the Forum (NOT the email!)
Djordje



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Djordje
Ace
MichaelRensing wrote:
3 easy steps.

Step 1: save view/plan/elevation as a .pmk file.

Step 2: open .pmk in PlotMaker and from there save as .eps format.

Step 3: open in Photoshop (these also open in Illustrator as vector files)
Moved to Tips&Tricks.
Djordje



ArchiCAD since 4.55 ... 1995
HP Omen
Anonymous
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I've used this technique for quite some time with great success. I like to create eps files and then make documents in a page layout program such as Adobe InDesign.

However, since this latest upgrade the fonts are not carrying through to the eps file. I get an error message when saving in PlotMaker saying that the fonts are missing.

I've tried several fonts, they are there in ArchiCAD when I create the drawing, they are available in InDesign but PlotMaker seems to miss them. Any thoughts?