this might be a little specialized but i use corel generally to layout architectural drawings. I export them from autocad usually as a .pdf with a variety of different line weights, I notice its not the .pdf but corel tends distort or alter these line weights which typically undoes hours of hard work, is there a way to make these line weights transfer more smoothly to corel?
Hello n3v; I'm used to a older Ver. of AuotCad, All of the lines would import & export as hair lines, I don't know about the newer ver. ( just something to keep in mind. ) Are you related to "R2V2?
Ah George you're back, making them hairline is easy! its when theyre all different thicknesses, perhaps if i set the ones coming out of autocad to match the preset thicknesses that corel has it might help?
also N3V is supposed to be nev but i think that username was taken!
Hello Again n3v; I was hoping you could get me a autograph ( Darn ) How about adding the line thickness in Corel after importing, or using a "Contour"?
George
george, we're talking about thousands of lines in one drawing here!
n3v you can set the lines two what ever you want in draw in the setup. I hope you find a easy out. John or Jeff may have a macro that could help John's site gdgmacros.com and jeff's is macromonster.com. And you could allway do what I do get a LOT of BEER and start clicking
Good Luck George
Something is puzzling me. Why are the line widths defined only when publishing to a PDF or EPS?
Isn't there someway you can define those line widths in AutoCAD? (I'm not a Cad guy, just throwing suggestions your way.)
What about writing to a PDF using a PDF writer instead of publishing?
Another way, is to convert all the lines to outlines in Adobe Acrobat. First you need to add a Watermark, drop the transparency and use the Flattener Preview tool to convert these lines.
Hi.
The only think I can think of would be a macro.
This macro can create a selection based on certain specifications and the selection query can be saved as a shortcut or activated through the macro.
Example. All lines of a certain thickness and color would be selected at the press of a button, inside groups or not, and once selected they can be quickly changed.
~John