Publishing to JPG/PDF and making it CRISP

[Anonymous]

When publishing a drawing from ArchiCad 10 to jpg format I choose BEST quality and BEST DEPTH - and it still ends up blurry. I then open it in Photoshop and find it to be at a 72dpi resolution. I tried also exporting as PDF with a 1200dpi resolution and found it to be 72dpi in Photoshop. I understand I am going from vectors to pixels, but there has to be a way to make it look crisp and clean.

How can I publish a drawing from ArchiCad 10 into JPG FORMAT making it look crisp?

I hope someone out there can help me out - I am bit frustrated for I am somewhat new to the program.

La Pitouflette

[Djordje]

Print to PDF. That is vector. Forget JPG.

How are you printing/saving to PDF? Where from? What do you want to do with the output?

[Anonymous]

I recieved a PDF document to place as EXTERNAL DRAWING in ArchiCad. This image serves as a background in which I had to place furniture/text/etc. This final product I am publishing for MARKETING purpose - and the program used to do the MARKETING booklets is MICROSOFT PUBLISHER (I can not put PDF but JPG/TIF for the person to import).

Right now what I am doing is up the scale to 1/2" in ArchiCad and publish as PDF. Once in Photoshop I am openning at 600dpi and then changing to JPG.

This is driving me crazy - but it still does the job half way/still fuzzy but not as bad as before.

If you know any other way - please enlighten me.

Pitouflette

[Andy Thomson]

screenshot 😉 - works for me! If on a mac, you can then batch convert the PNGs, or maybe set a preference to capture JPGs instead...

AC saves crappy JPEGs, screenshots are better for these purposes.

[Jere]

the best results i've had (keep in mind i'm not a graphics guy) is to print to PDF then save to JPG from Adobe Acrobat and not ArchiCAD.