Re: Vector Drawing to JPEG more specific problem

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "Dan Statman" <dan.statman@r...> wrote:

> Thank you all for the helpful replies. Unfortunately I do not have

Corel

> Draw, so I was unable to test that. I have a simple paint program

and I

> have PhotoDeluxe.

Dan use the following to better control the bit map.

1) Set the line width that you want in Vector and unselect. If you
are using Vector as full screen, you may want to reduce the size of
the Vector frame to keep the resulting bit map file small and more
managable for e-mail and web use. For your artwork this will
probably be a box about 3 x 3 inches on the screen. Make sure that
Vector has the focus by left clicking on the title bar.

2) ALT-Print Screen. This will copy the image of the Vector frame to
the clipboard and ignore the rest of your desktop.

3) Open MS-Paint or any graphic program, edit paste, save the file as
any format that you want. MS-paint will save as GIF in Win 98, and
JPG, PNG and others as well in Win XP.

You can also Paste a Selection in Vector to other Windows applcations
like Excel, Word, or even Wordpad (included with all MS-Windows OS
installations). If your customers have MS-Windows, they will be able
to open a Wordpad file and view the Vector graphic that is pasted
into it. Just like with the Alt-Print Screen above, Size the Vector
window before you copy the selected entities to the clipboard, and
you won't have to do any cropping.

If you have the 9.3 or the NURBS option, you can display all visible
geometry in the Render window. This makes a very nice 3D shaded view
of 3D surfaces and shows the wirefram geometry as well. The line
width is not implemented in 9.3 rendering, but the render screen is
very clean for ALT-Print Screen, as you can give it the sole focus
and nothing but that frame is copied to the clipboard. In the Nurbs
option the rendering has zoom-pan- as well as dynamic rotation which
makes it easy to create a nice display for customer (or wifely for
that matter) approval.

One last thing about Screen capture, it is done at the resolution of
your screen. If you normally run in 800x600 to make things easy on
your eyes, then increase the resolution temporarily to 1024 or 1280,
and the clarity of the screen prints will be greatly improved.

I do not recommend the PDF route as that requires that a PDF
application be installed to view the files.

Best Regards,

Fred Smith
IMService