Autocad in Photoshop

[charlottanne]

Hello.
Do you know how to obtain a quality drawing of Autocad in Photoshop??
I ask because I want to add some colours on my Autocad plan.

Thanks for your help.

 

[zdas04]

When I need to "enhance" an AutoCad drawing in Photoshop, I print the sheet to a .pdf file and load the .pdf in Photoshop. It works very well.

David

 

[charlottanne]

Thank you.
But then when you have the autocad plan in photoshop in a .pdf file, how do you print it at the good scale (the same scale as in Autocad)?

PS: I use Indesign too to put the .pdf files on the pages to print. But how do I obtain the drawings at the same scale as in Autocad?

Thanks for your answer again.

 

[zdas04]

I've recently been fighting with this and found that if you print to Adobe from AutoCad you want to let it use the "Letter" page layout. Then once it is in .pdf you can open it with Acrobat (for example) and zoom into very high numbers and see all the detail crisp and easy to read.

It works that way with printers too. I can send a .pdf from AutoCad to "E" size with no jaggy's.

Within Photoshop you can edit the file, save it back as a .pdf, .psd, or .jpg all of which are scaleable on output. Some print shops have a problem with the .psd format which is unique to the PhotoShop family.

David

 

[charlottanne]

But I don't really understand:
if you have a drawing in Autocad at the scale 1/100 for example, when you export it in .pdf in photoshop, how can you print this drawing at the scale 1/100 too?