Archicad Drawings into photoshop

[Anonymous]

Hello all,
We keep trying to finish Archicad drawings in Photoshop, but when we export the drawings from Archicad as any type of file .pdf, jpeg, psd. etc. the actually drawing becomes distorted and unusable. what format should we use to tranfer info. We are trying to colour up the drawings using photoshop.

[Djordje]

PDF

[Anonymous]

William wrote:
Hello all,
We keep trying to finish Archicad drawings in Photoshop, but when we export the drawings from Archicad as any type of file .pdf, jpeg, psd. etc. the actually drawing becomes distorted and unusable. what format should we use to tranfer info. We are trying to colour up the drawings using photoshop.

We use Macs OSX 10.4 with Archicad 11- 1040 and Photoshop C2

[__archiben]

William wrote:
We use Macs OSX 10.4 with Archicad 11- 1040 and Photoshop C2

as djordje said - print or export as PDF from your publisher and open in photoshop. PDF preserves the vector graphics or drawing elements so you won't get the 'distortion' you're experiencing with pixel-based formats . . .

but you said that you tried PDF . . ? are you sure it was distorting, or just the way photoshop was displaying it on screen?

~/archiben

[Anonymous]

Thankyou for kind suggestions. We often try by publishing the Archicad drawing in .PDF but when the .PDF is opened and printed off in Photoshop C2 the line quality (from drawings drawn in Archicad) drops badly. i.e the lines become very faint, as if there is no line weight! is this normal? or is there away around this, as obviously the Architectural drawing is the main element, bringing it into Photoshop is just to colour it up.

MAC G5
Archicad 11 -1040 INT Full
Photoshop C2

[Thomas Holm]

Normally, Photoshop rasterizes the PDF - it becomes a pixel image like any other. To preserve its sharpness you have to rasterize it at the final size, that is no resizing after you've included the pdf into the Photoshop image. Size the photoshop file before you insert the PDF!

[Anonymous]

Open it in Photoshop at 600 dpi. I hope you will like it!

[Eduardo Rolon]

And remember to uncheck Antialias to stop Photoshop from blurring the lines.