CAD ADVICE
Welcome to Jim's Advice Column
Featured Dilemma:
Making a JPEG file from a drawing file
There are a couple of way to save a drawing as a jpg.

1. Zoom in and get exactly what you want on the screen
and hit the "print screen" button on your keyboard.
This does a screen dump to your clipboard. Then open a
paint program (i.e. paint shop pro, Photoshop, Paint)
and paste the screen capture into the paint program,
then save as JPG.
note: some paint programs have a capture feature built
in and can be used in the same way.


2. Set up a new plotter make it in Raster Format. You
should notice that you not only have Jpg choice but
CAL, Tiff, BMP, & PCX. Then just plot make a plot. The
jpg file is by default save with the same name as the
drawing. This only works for 2000 or 2000i. In R14 you
can only use BMP, TGA, PCX & TIFF formats but, you
could use these and save them as jpg in a paint
program.

3. Use the Export command and export a bmp or wmf,
then save it as a jpg with a paint program.
(this does
not work well because it does not save much detail)


One point I would like to make,
You can still edit a
jpg
. DWF or PDF files are much harder to change and I
would go that way if you
REALLY did not want your
information changed.
See
QnA page 37
for directions on making PDF's.

Good Luck
Jim
Jim,

How can I convert a dwg. file to a jpeg so I can emial it to  customers without letting them have editing capabilities???

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