Bill: Where can I buy a copy of GraphicConverter? For the map going to the printer, I shall try what you said.
For regular large architectural drawings, I simply move the Vector Words document on to a CD-R disc, and drop it off at Electric Blue Print Company on Main Street. They go a great job of either B&W or color at a reasonable price. Much better than Kinkos, I think. Neal Bill Holt wrote: > Neil, > > You can probably get a better result - a lot better - by leaving the > maps in vector format instead of translating to a bitmap. Your > publisher probably wants 1200 dpi or better for his work, and if you > send to him as a vector based file then he can generate that sort of > density routinely. If you try to do it, it will be huge at your end. > One way to do this is to copy to the clipboard and then open the > clipboard in GraphicConverter and save in the scaleable vector > format. Then your publisher can use GC (or perhaps something else) to > open the file and print to whatever resolution he wants. > > Or, it might be useful for you to use the same routine I use for > drawing output. Instead of firing up the old pen plotter, I "print" > from VW to a pdf file and email that to Kinkos for plotting. I don't > know whether pdf carries the vector info when created in this way or > not, but if not, a workaround is to print at some multiplier of the > desired final size and let your publisher print at the reciprocal. > That packs a lot of resolution into the image. > > Bill > > > On Saturday, July 9, 2005, at 07:32 AM, Neal Hammon wrote: > >> Bill- >> >> I'm a retired architect, and I still do some architectural drawings, >> which I put on a CD and have printed at Electric Blueprint on Main >> Street. >> >> At present I am working on a book, scheduled to be published next >> month, which contains about six or seven maps, that I created on VW, >> and am sending to my publisher. Some I printed out on my lazer and >> sent, and others I have sent email, without great success. But >> apparently I need to turn up the ppi on the VW export box. >> >> Neal Hammon >> >> >> Bill Holt wrote: >> >>> Neal, >>> >>> I suggest that you get a copy of GraphicConverter. It's $30 or $35, >>> as I recall, and translates from damned near any format to damned >>> near any other one ... and allows a lot of image manipulation. >>> You'll have to experiment with the dpi setting. It depends on the >>> pict you're bringing in and on the application yo intend for it. If >>> your goal is to optimize for screen viewing, you may want to go with >>> 72 or so, for good prints you'll probably want at least double that >>> density. >>> >>> What kind of stuff do you do with VW10? I'm an occasional user, now >>> of VW11. >>> >>> >>> Bill Holt >>> >>> >>> On Friday, July 8, 2005, at 02:14 PM, Neal Hammon wrote: >>> >>>> Question for anyone. >>>> >>>> I am using a G5 with system 10.3.4 >>>> >>>> On the internet I use Netscape. (probably not a good choice, but I >>>> am used to it.) Once in a while I receive pictures and/or drawings >>>> I can not open. >>>> >>>> I work with a Vector CAD program, version 10. With this program I >>>> can export the following. >>>> >>>> BMP, JPEG, TIFF, TGA, SGI, PNG, PIC, MACPAINT AND PHOTOSHOP. >>>> >>>> Question: What would be a good dpi setting to used when exporting >>>> the programs? >>>> >>>> I presume I can also open the same programs, but the instruction >>>> book is not too clear on this. I have no problems opening >>>> Photoshop, Microsoft Word, and JPEG. >>>> >>>> Neal Hammon >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>>> | be July 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>>> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >>>> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>> | be July 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >>> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >>> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be July 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >> > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be July 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
