I am new at the rendering and adding site color to my landscape plan. I was very excited to create a beautiful color landscape plan but now the drawing is to big and I am having a problem sending it to the printer. Does anyone have any tricks on cleaning up the drawing to make it smaller? Its 8mb
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Hi Kim,
We have a knowledge base page that covers the tricks we have so far.
Color Render: Excessively Large File Size or Gradient Issue
The biggest one is usually if there's a lot of gradient hatches in the file. You can change those to solid colour hatches. We've just recently added a lot of new solid colour options to help with this.
If you're using no gradients and still having a file size and printer issue, we've found that for PDF's with a very large number of solid hatches (or colour tree symbols use solid hatches as well), vector PDF's have performance issues. It's a problem with the file type itself handling vector-based solid hatches. Take the PDF into Photoshop instead or another program that will help you transform the PDF into a raster-based file instead. The file size might get bigger than it was before but printers will be able to handle that file better than a vector pdf with vector solid hatches.
We haven't yet heard of a way to output raster PDF's directly from AutoCAD or F/X CAD.
-Amanda
We have a knowledge base page that covers the tricks we have so far.
Color Render: Excessively Large File Size or Gradient Issue
The biggest one is usually if there's a lot of gradient hatches in the file. You can change those to solid colour hatches. We've just recently added a lot of new solid colour options to help with this.
If you're using no gradients and still having a file size and printer issue, we've found that for PDF's with a very large number of solid hatches (or colour tree symbols use solid hatches as well), vector PDF's have performance issues. It's a problem with the file type itself handling vector-based solid hatches. Take the PDF into Photoshop instead or another program that will help you transform the PDF into a raster-based file instead. The file size might get bigger than it was before but printers will be able to handle that file better than a vector pdf with vector solid hatches.
We haven't yet heard of a way to output raster PDF's directly from AutoCAD or F/X CAD.
-Amanda
Kim,
We've found that if you can save your final as JPG is reduces the size and the printer accepts and prints it significantly faster. You should have gotten a print driver with your AutoCAD installation that is called DWG to PDF. Use this driver and you will have your file in a PDF format. This will print, but we usually go one step further and convert it to a JPG. I use IrfanView http://www.irfanview.com/64bit.htm. This software will also allow you to create smaller versions of your copy so that you can print 11"x17" versions of your larger graphics in a fraction of the time.
Have fun!
Seaweed
We've found that if you can save your final as JPG is reduces the size and the printer accepts and prints it significantly faster. You should have gotten a print driver with your AutoCAD installation that is called DWG to PDF. Use this driver and you will have your file in a PDF format. This will print, but we usually go one step further and convert it to a JPG. I use IrfanView http://www.irfanview.com/64bit.htm. This software will also allow you to create smaller versions of your copy so that you can print 11"x17" versions of your larger graphics in a fraction of the time.
Have fun!
Seaweed
Accepted Answer
Hi Kim,
We have a knowledge base page that covers the tricks we have so far.
Color Render: Excessively Large File Size or Gradient Issue
The biggest one is usually if there's a lot of gradient hatches in the file. You can change those to solid colour hatches. We've just recently added a lot of new solid colour options to help with this.
If you're using no gradients and still having a file size and printer issue, we've found that for PDF's with a very large number of solid hatches (or colour tree symbols use solid hatches as well), vector PDF's have performance issues. It's a problem with the file type itself handling vector-based solid hatches. Take the PDF into Photoshop instead or another program that will help you transform the PDF into a raster-based file instead. The file size might get bigger than it was before but printers will be able to handle that file better than a vector pdf with vector solid hatches.
We haven't yet heard of a way to output raster PDF's directly from AutoCAD or F/X CAD.
-Amanda
We have a knowledge base page that covers the tricks we have so far.
Color Render: Excessively Large File Size or Gradient Issue
The biggest one is usually if there's a lot of gradient hatches in the file. You can change those to solid colour hatches. We've just recently added a lot of new solid colour options to help with this.
If you're using no gradients and still having a file size and printer issue, we've found that for PDF's with a very large number of solid hatches (or colour tree symbols use solid hatches as well), vector PDF's have performance issues. It's a problem with the file type itself handling vector-based solid hatches. Take the PDF into Photoshop instead or another program that will help you transform the PDF into a raster-based file instead. The file size might get bigger than it was before but printers will be able to handle that file better than a vector pdf with vector solid hatches.
We haven't yet heard of a way to output raster PDF's directly from AutoCAD or F/X CAD.
-Amanda
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