Re: Thanks - CAD Help

[T.& M. Taudin-Chabot]

<x-rich>Sometimes a HPGL plotfile can do the trick. Plot to a file as if the plotter is a HP7500 plotter. There are application that can read plotfiles, my version of MS Word has an import filter.

At 14:23 16-3-00 -0000, you wrote:
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Colleagues

Thanks to all of you who responded with help in translating CAD files into a format suitable for drawing packages. I was guided to Paintshop Pro v5, which I already had, but then found that my venerable CAD program (TurboCAD v3) produces a rather non-standard .dxf format which messed up some of the lines, and lost the special fonts.

The "Print screen" route also worked, but the resolution was low.

My current stop-gap solution (until I get a more up-to-date CAD package) has been to print out at 1440 dpi and scan back in again, saving as a .gif! Messy, but it's surprisingly effective.

BTW - the task in question was some diagrams for the Sundial Glossary (Draft 7), so the question wasn't entirely off-topic

Cheers,

John
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