Any of you know how to open a pdf created in vectorworks up in illustrator without screwing up the lineweights?
In autocad, when you use the distiller print mode, you could open the file in illustrator and the lines would have the correct lineweights associated with your pentable
In Vectorworks, when I print as a pdf it looks fine, but if I open that .pdf up in Illustrator, the lineweights get super nasty.
Anyhelp? Or perhaps another suggestion for taking lineweights from vectorworks to illustrator
i believe illustrator discards the lineweight.
i al ways use eps's, they usually open fine. some files just dont work, so i open them in photoshop, save as a high res psd and then to illustratos (usually 1 out of 10 files).
i was just told that exporting a .dwg out of vectorworks, then opening that in illustrator will work, and it did. You just have to make sure that you don't 'scale to fit artboard' when you open it in illustrator
looks like it. you also can preserve the layers when you open it in illustrator, so you can select all a-wall, i.e., and turn them all to a certain lineweight, fill, etc. But that should already be done in vectorworks as far as lineweight is concerned
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Any of you know how to open a pdf created in vectorworks up in illustrator without screwing up the lineweights?
In autocad, when you use the distiller print mode, you could open the file in illustrator and the lines would have the correct lineweights associated with your pentable
In Vectorworks, when I print as a pdf it looks fine, but if I open that .pdf up in Illustrator, the lineweights get super nasty.
Anyhelp? Or perhaps another suggestion for taking lineweights from vectorworks to illustrator
i believe illustrator discards the lineweight.
i al ways use eps's, they usually open fine. some files just dont work, so i open them in photoshop, save as a high res psd and then to illustratos (usually 1 out of 10 files).
thanks bigness
i was just told that exporting a .dwg out of vectorworks, then opening that in illustrator will work, and it did. You just have to make sure that you don't 'scale to fit artboard' when you open it in illustrator
cool...can you then edit each single line as independent vectors?
looks like it. you also can preserve the layers when you open it in illustrator, so you can select all a-wall, i.e., and turn them all to a certain lineweight, fill, etc. But that should already be done in vectorworks as far as lineweight is concerned
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