cleaning up drawings in paint

[uthotlunch05]

Hello, I am making an instruction manual in AutoCAD 2000i. The problem is that the printers that we send the manuals to requests that we have the manual in Microsoft Word. I was having problems copying for AutoCAD to Word because of how the window size gets copied and pasted into Word. To fix that I started to copy into MS paint and then copy the drawing into Word. I wanted to look and see what the quality of the illistration was going to be so I printed an example and it ended up being real distorted (not all the illistrations were that bad, but I do have some 3-D illistrations and they are the ones that look real bad). A co-worker told me that in another program there is some kind of "smooth" command, I was just wondering if there was a way to improve how this looks

 

[melone]

Why don't you just crop the pictures in Word and resize them accordingly?

 

[uthotlunch05]

It seems to me when you do that it crops the entire window, not just the drawing I need, that makes resizing it difficult in a 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper

 

[nbtex]

This was a problem for us when writing technical reports. We were able to get around the issue by saving the autocad file (V17) into .bmp format. Open the .bmp file in an editor like photoshop and save the immage as a .jpg file. Place the .jpg file in your document.

Also microsoft has information about this issue.

 

[maelstrom]

You might also try converting your drawings to EPS (Print to a PostScript printer, redirect to a file and run it through GhostScript), that should let you scale it as necessary and will only output exactly what would normally be printed.

And just as an "oops-check", are you preserving aspect ration when you rescale? Drag a corner to make sure it stays the same shape...

 

[mech53]

We export from AutoCAD into a *.wmf and import it directly into word. Other methods:

Save image as *.bmp and change to *.jpg with MSPaint, then import into word.

We also do the above and crop/manage the image in Adobe Photoshop, as it has many more useful features than MSPaint.

Whatever you do, when you export from autocad, zoom your window in ONLY on the portion that you want to export! That will help to minimize the image file size and the amount of image area included when you try to resize on an 8-1/2 x 11 sheet.

 

[cupidposeidon]

helllo,
Go to the run command and type (cls)or you reduced the points then paste it in coreldraw before painting. thanks i hope thats works.
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