See if there is an option in Corel to flatten the layers. I think Visio gives you this option. That might increase the rendering speed in the PDF.
Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 On 18-Oct-10 11:27 AM, Jo Watkiss wrote: > Thanks everybody for lots of advice and suggestions. > > We don't have access to Solidworks itself, only the 3D e-drawing (.easm) > that is supplied by the project engineer. We use the Solidworks > eDrawings Viewer to manipulate the model to get the illustration that we > need. Unfortunately, if we want to export a vector, its 'all or nothing' > - which is probably why the resulting image renders so slowly on screen. > > > I agree that in a perfect world the engineer would create all the > illustrations we need as 2D PDFs directly from Solidworks; or we would > have another Solidworks licence so that we could do it ourselves. In > our imperfect world, we have to make do with the eDrawing. > > I've concluded its best to use a bitmap wherever possible, and a vector > only when absolutely necessary. > > Cheers, > Jo > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as shmuelw1 at gmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/shmuelw1%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >
