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well if I understand you I use imagemagick to do that kind of thing. It is easy to use. If you want to get in touch and email me a demo file I can try it for you. Angie
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Ideas and more ideassailingcubJanuary 5 2005, 22:55:36 UTC
I have a couple of ideas.
Are you able to grab an object and tell it that you want it a certain bit bigger or smaller? For instance, in AutoCAD I can grab something (say a table) and tell it that the 3 feet wide it is presently really needs to be 5 feet wide and it will scale the table up to fit. If you can do that then grab everything and scale it down instead... Like if you want it quarter scale then (if your units are inches) tell it you want it 1/48 of its current size.
Or... you must be able to print to a particular scale, right? Then can you print to an adobe document? Adobe documents can then be opened in Photoshop (little known factoid) and saved as .eps.
or ... uh .. crap. e-mail me your digits and I'll call you. The vectorworks site has crap for info on the program.
Re: Ideas and more ideasfrankiejlhJanuary 7 2005, 01:03:10 UTC
The first one I had thought of, and tried, and have yet to hear back from the chick as to how it worked (the lameness is that we don't have P'Shop on the office computers, so I have to send the file to someone upstairs and get feedback to see if it worked out or not ;p). Though in VW's versions of "paper space" and "model space" maybe it makes a difference whether you scale the drawing itself or just the viewport. Ponder. The second I had also thought of, but it hadn't occured to me to send it to myself as a .pdf (or some such), open it at home, and then save it as .eps & scale it on photoshop. Or scale it in .pdf if possible at work, then just transfer it into .eps, perhaps. Brilliant! I'll try that next. ...Looking on the VW site, that was above and beyond the call of duty, thanks. Yeah, they're no help at all; all it says is "look how cool we are! you can save to .eps!". Thanks. Oh, and the 2 books I have on the program; the really fat ones? They say the same thing ;p....* Take care, thx again!
oh you like the challenge, do you? ::rubs hands together menacingly like Mister Smithers::. I'll keep you in mind next time i'm vexed ;). I coooould export to ACAD, though there's always some tomfoolery there bcs VW defines nearly everything as an object and acad as a collection of lines, so often stuff gets translated a little bit bugfucky. But ... you're saying that acad does scale its .epses? That's nice of them, and good to know.
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Let me know if you need help with it.
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Are you able to grab an object and tell it that you want it a certain bit bigger or smaller? For instance, in AutoCAD I can grab something (say a table) and tell it that the 3 feet wide it is presently really needs to be 5 feet wide and it will scale the table up to fit. If you can do that then grab everything and scale it down instead... Like if you want it quarter scale then (if your units are inches) tell it you want it 1/48 of its current size.
Or... you must be able to print to a particular scale, right? Then can you print to an adobe document? Adobe documents can then be opened in Photoshop (little known factoid) and saved as .eps.
or ... uh .. crap. e-mail me your digits and I'll call you. The vectorworks site has crap for info on the program.
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The second I had also thought of, but it hadn't occured to me to send it to myself as a .pdf (or some such), open it at home, and then save it as .eps & scale it on photoshop. Or scale it in .pdf if possible at work, then just transfer it into .eps, perhaps. Brilliant! I'll try that next.
...Looking on the VW site, that was above and beyond the call of duty, thanks. Yeah, they're no help at all; all it says is "look how cool we are! you can save to .eps!". Thanks. Oh, and the 2 books I have on the program; the really fat ones? They say the same thing ;p....*
Take care, thx again!
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By scale I mean that what says it is one inch in your drawing is actually what will print out at one inch long. does that make sense?
Long day... too much admin crap, not enough challenge leads to me babbling geek.
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I coooould export to ACAD, though there's always some tomfoolery there bcs VW defines nearly everything as an object and acad as a collection of lines, so often stuff gets translated a little bit bugfucky. But ... you're saying that acad does scale its .epses? That's nice of them, and good to know.
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