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exported graphics of schematics look "thin"

autodeskguest

Hi All,

 

I am exporting graphics of schematics (to import into pdf and documents),

but they have low contrast, blured/dithered, and not nearly as sharp and

clear as the display (perhaps I should use a screen capture).

 

One work-around was to increase the widths of lines in schematics (and

libraries) from .008 to .012, but what a hassle!

 

Any tips on exporting graphics of schematics would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 

 

  • On 10/23/2009 10:23 PM, roger wrote:

    Hi All,

     

    I am exporting graphics of schematics (to import into pdf and documents),

    but they have low contrast, blured/dithered, and not nearly as sharp and

    clear as the display (perhaps I should use a screen capture).

     

    One work-around was to increase the widths of lines in schematics (and

    libraries) from .008 to .012, but what a hassle!

     

    Any tips on exporting graphics of schematics would be greatly appreciated.

     

    Thanks in advance.

     

     

    The most probable cause is that you are scaling the image in your

    documents. Don't scale it, it will loose sharpness. If you want a

    smaller image, change the output resolution to be lower, if you want a

    larger image, change the output resolution to be bigger.

     

    This will occur in any vector-based drawing that is exported to a raster

    image (bmp, jpg, png, etc.) and scaled.

     

  • roger schrieb:

     

    I am exporting graphics of schematics (to import into pdf and documents),

    but they have low contrast, blured/dithered, and not nearly as sharp and

    clear as the display (perhaps I should use a screen capture).

     

    Do /not/ export to a raster grafics format. If you want PDF, simply

    generate PDF with the print command. If that PDF shall be part of a

    larger document, use a "collecting" printer driver like fineprint

    PDFfactory, or concatenate the parts of the document with Acrobat.

     

    For importing images into documents, you might also consider using PS

    (EPS) files. If you use raster grafics formats, you need a rather high

    resolution for reasonable results, and the files will be large.

     

    Tilmann