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      sexypox69
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      Oh Sketchup, when will we be able to import pdf's.....Im working on a very large project with lots of text in Autocad...I export it to a pdf then to an image file to be placed in sketchup so I may type over the text instead of going back and forth between sketchup and cad. but when I scale the image to match the imported cad file I can't see jack.... 😞

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      • Dave RD Offline
        Dave R
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        It's already available on the Mac. πŸ˜‰

        Why not put the text in using LayOut?

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          sexypox69
          last edited by

          Geeezes, why didn't I think of that? Thanks a million....you're the best

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          • ElibjrE Offline
            Elibjr
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            Well, I still think it would be a great idea to add PDFs in the import file types for SketchUp. I makes sense because unlike jpgs, tiffs and bmps a pdf is not a raster image and can be measured like a dwg or dxf file. The other image files are raster images and no matter what quality they are saved in, they can't be compared to adding a vector image into your project as a background. This also would allow you to import this file type if you only have the Make version of SketchUp. Just a thought. πŸ˜„

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              kaas
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              @sexypox69 said:

              Oh Sketchup, when will we be able to import pdf's.....(

              Have you tried importing the pdf into Inkscape? From Inkscape you can export to dxf and you can import that into Sketchup. Even with multi-page pdfs, Inkscape will let you choose which page to import. Works great.

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                sexypox69
                last edited by

                I really thought 2015 would have been able to import pdf's....is this a sign to move to mac

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                • andybotA Offline
                  andybot
                  last edited by

                  @dave r said:

                  It's already available on the Mac. πŸ˜‰

                  Why not put the text in using LayOut?

                  Not being a Mac person - does it come in as vector or as raster? If it's vector, it may make it worth looking into...

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                  • jeff hammondJ Offline
                    jeff hammond
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                    @andybot said:

                    Not being a Mac person - does it come in as vector or as raster? If it's vector, it may make it worth looking into...

                    raster

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