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Hi, I am trying to print a PDF with vector output but I always get a raster output. Someone got an idea what I am doing wrong?
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Permalink Reply by MN on -
As far as I know vector output is only possible when you have 2D drawing. I have never managed to do vector output on 3D perspective (as you have on your screen-shot) output.
it would be nice if this gets fixed.
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Permalink Reply by James Carruthers on -
Yeah, it just doesn't work, the as Jeff LaSor has explained the way the technical display modes do their hidden-line stuff doesn't give you vectors, not even close, it's all a bunch of shading trickery that just by some happy coincidence happens to look like a drawing.
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Permalink Reply by Wieland Schmidt on -
this is very disappointing... i thought it must be possible to get some vectors out.
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Permalink Reply by James Carruthers on
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There are no vectors there to print. That's what Make2D is for....
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Permalink Reply by Morten Emil Engel on -
There are still bugs with printing in rhino 5.
I could not print even 2d lines from Rhino5 in vectors. Also dimensions also print out pixelated.
I hope they are aware of this.
Layout and printing in Rhino is still quite rudimentary.
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Permalink Reply by Jiří Šrubař on -
I'm trying to print to PDF purely 2D-lines image with "Vector output" selected.
- While printing from Page layout, the output file is "rasterized".
- The same image printed directly from model (Top view) is printed correctly as vectors.
Same settings and different output - is there something I missed?
Thanks, J.
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Permalink Reply by Stefan Gingras on
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Make 2d > export as an illustrator file. Done. (unless you don't have illustrator). This also has a handy option to scale automatically. Just make sure your lines are at the origin, or the illustrator file won't open.
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Permalink Reply by Jiří Šrubař on
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Thanks for help, but this solution is not what I'm looking for. (That image was made by Make2D. I also use export as AI file for some purposes and I know about this possibility.)
The solution i mentioned above (printing directly from model view) works as well. But I don't know why is PDF file printed from Page layout (with Vector output option selected) rasterized.
I think, it's a bug - because in v4 worked that option as expected in both "Page layout" and "Model view" printing. But there can be some new switch somewhere, which i didn't find ...
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Permalink Reply by Wieland Schmidt on
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I agree it must be a bug because getting a pixelated 'vector output' makes no sense.
Make2D is a nice feature but I want to get a full vector drawing out of rhino.
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Permalink Reply by Alex Manuele on -
I'm curious about this issue.
I'm teaching myself Rhino with a demo copy. I use AutoCAD and SketchUp extensively but I consider AutoCAD 3D to be unusable and I'm not crazy about the way you have to go into a separate program from SketchUp to get output. So I end up exporting and importing between the two programs. I'm hoping that Rhino might be able to combine these various functions so I can output 2D and 3D from one application in one drawing set.
But if I can't output vector correctly from Rhino than Rhino isn't the solution.
Any further input on this issue will be greatly appreciated.
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Permalink Reply by Jiří Šrubař on
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You can get vector output from 3D scene, but only in Wireframe mode - and (same bug again) unfortunately only while printing directly from Model view - not from Page layout.
I'm afraid vector output is not possible in other display modes - you will get always the same result as in the Wireframe mode.
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Permalink Reply by Alex Manuele on
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That's a real deal breaker for me. SketchUp's Layout program is pretty cumbersome especially when it comes to dimensions and annotations but at least you can choose between vector and raster or a hybrid of the two.
Disappointed.
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