Neal,
Here's the web site: http://www.lemkesoft.com/
No Mac should be without a copy of GraphicConverter. If you have any
curiosity about what one person, or a very few people, can accomplish,
you may want to look at some of the other stuff.
I wouldn't expect Kinkos to be able to handle VW files, but have gotten
good results by emailing pdf files for them to print. As I recall -
and it's been a couple of years - they charged $10 per sheet to print
on bond. To have it printed on velum, I had to supply the vellum.
Can you talk about the book and what kind of maps you've put together?
Bill
On Saturday, July 9, 2005, at 03:45 PM, Neal Hammon wrote:
> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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