So I'm doing an urban/landscape study and need to print a 3.5meter banner of the plan and sections and possibly later 7meters (it's in Archicad) but the PDF takes forever and crashes all the time(printing it to PDF) is there a 'smarter' way to output this kind of huge files, e.g. export or save as PDF/EPS or even DWG/DXF and take it to Autocad or Illustrator/Indesign? The issue is the printing service only takes PDFs to plot and won't accept other formats. thanks in advance.
random,
that is a large file. Have you tried breaking it down to like two or three sheets, then you can puzzle it back together in illustrator/indesign?
I was trying to avoid that and have as little post-production as possible but I'll give it a try, if there are others with any ideas feel free to post them...
Just a minute ago I plotted 7ft to pdf in Acad 4.... no problems at all. It's a huge marketing banner with site plan and renderings. I tried using Acad 7 but that crashed, but apparently 2004 works better. Good luck!
sounds like it's an ArchiCAD issue-- can you export each of the elements spearately, then compose the final sheet in InDesign or Illustrator (exporting as vectors so you can scale up if needed)??
I managed to use the 'save as' command and save the file instead of print to PDF. It initially was 60mb and I managed to bring it down to 20mb, but at the printingshop it didn't come out the way it should: not at all, only a part or layers missing. I'll probably have to work around it and go to InDesign/Illustrator dammit.
PDF banner issues
So I'm doing an urban/landscape study and need to print a 3.5meter banner of the plan and sections and possibly later 7meters (it's in Archicad) but the PDF takes forever and crashes all the time(printing it to PDF) is there a 'smarter' way to output this kind of huge files, e.g. export or save as PDF/EPS or even DWG/DXF and take it to Autocad or Illustrator/Indesign? The issue is the printing service only takes PDFs to plot and won't accept other formats. thanks in advance.
random,
that is a large file. Have you tried breaking it down to like two or three sheets, then you can puzzle it back together in illustrator/indesign?
I was trying to avoid that and have as little post-production as possible but I'll give it a try, if there are others with any ideas feel free to post them...
Just a minute ago I plotted 7ft to pdf in Acad 4.... no problems at all. It's a huge marketing banner with site plan and renderings. I tried using Acad 7 but that crashed, but apparently 2004 works better. Good luck!
Cheers!
sounds like it's an ArchiCAD issue-- can you export each of the elements spearately, then compose the final sheet in InDesign or Illustrator (exporting as vectors so you can scale up if needed)??
I managed to use the 'save as' command and save the file instead of print to PDF. It initially was 60mb and I managed to bring it down to 20mb, but at the printingshop it didn't come out the way it should: not at all, only a part or layers missing. I'll probably have to work around it and go to InDesign/Illustrator dammit.
agree w/ above: layout each element in indesign, create the .pdf from there
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