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?
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
Hello n3v; Try a "PLT" file and see if that helps?
George
adrian - line weights are not assigned until you plot the file at the end, this is so that you can use different plot styles depending on the drawing you want, for example in CAD you tend to draw at a 1;1 scale but export it to a variety of different scales, so line weights that are correct for one scale might be hideously thick for another scale. The line widths are fine in the CAD preview and in the subsequent .pdf, it is when you export the drawing into corel.
John and Jack - I hadn't thought of doing it this way, sounds good! perhaps a little labourious but it might be the easiest option, i never tend to use more than perhaps 6-8 colours per plot so might not be as difficult as it sounds, its just frustrating that there is a problem transference between the two programs. I think that your method would almost certainly work, only most of the files I'm talking about were plotted to .pdf some time ago with all the correct line weights etc so ideally I was looking for a solution that would have just opened what I have without any fuss.
George: who's brian? Ha ha