Scale SU drawings in InDesign

steven633

Hi guys,

After doing a few Interior Design projects in Layout (im an Interiors student). I am starting to tire a little of Layout's clunkiness. I much prefer the high quality interface of InDesign to create presentations.

I wonder if there is any way to import a scaled SU drawing into an InDesign Doc, in the same way as as you can import into Layout. I realise that it would not be as straight forward, and I also realise that I couldnt alter the scale afterwards in InDesign as you can with Layout. But I wonder if it is possbible to get an accurate scaled drawing on there? Is it possible to create something in PDF and keep the dimensions??

Any help appreciated

Steven

peter_shaw

I would also like to know that.
A (pretty bad) workaround i use is to quickly scale it with LayOut, export it as pdf and then place it in InDesign... if u want to change scale in InDesign later, u have to do the math yourself.. note that there is an option in indesign that always keeps the initial scaling percentage of an imported object visible, (so when u resize smth. to 50%, it shows 50% in the scaling box all the time). kinda helpful

Anssi

I would also say that exporting to scale to PDF or EPS or printing to PDF would be the easiest way. To create a 'to-scale' raster image is also possible, but it is more complicated, and you will have to go through an image editor:

in SU, create a parallel view. Draw an empty frame with known dimensions round your model.
export an image to a high resolution. Open the exported image in Photoshop.
In Photoshop, crop the image to the frame you drew. If your background is uniform, you can use the Trim command
Resize the image to the dimensions your frame should have on paper and to the desired final resolution.
Now, if needed, you can crop the image further, when you save it, it will retain its dpi value so that it will get placed to Indesign to the right scale.

Anssi