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| 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 |
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| Jim, How can I convert a dwg. file to a jpeg so I can emial it to customers without letting them have editing capabilities??? [email protected] |
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