Zooming in on text once exported?

Savlich

Hi all,
I have a fairly large model that has a lot of different parts to it. My plan is to use layout to have it on a single page, then be able to zoom into each individual part to get info on it once its exported to pdf. I think other drawing programs are able to do this.
Is there a way to do this in layout 2015/2016? or something similar?
Any help would be appreciated.

Dave R

I'm not entirely sure what it is you're asking. You can make the text as large as you need to so you can read it in the exported PDF. If you aren't printing the PDF, the viewer will let you zoom in to greater than 100%.

Savlich

Hi,

Sorry if that didn't make sense.

I was sent drawing from an engineer that was a pdf. I opened it up and it had an entire salmon farm on it, when i zoomed into each part there was tiny writing that i could read which told me all the info about that specific part.
So the text and the arrows are invisible until i zoom.

Layout seems to only be able to use #8 font as the smallest, and the arrows to .25

I could always just use a larger template i guess..

Just thought there might be an option for this.

Cheers

Dave R

I'm not understanding what LayOut has to do with the PDF of the salmon farm but if you want to use small text in your own LayOut projects, you certainly can. Although the font size list only goes down to 8 point, there's nothing to stop you from typing a smaller value. I have one template set up to do dimensions and leader text at 6 point. It works just fine. I wouldn't use a font that small on a page that will print larger than 8-1/2 x 11, though.

pbacot

There may be some limitation if you plan to use Hybrid or raster mode for the output. You can make the page size whatever you like, but (even with improved compression in 2016) there will be a limit on how big you want your pdf to be (in MB) and how good the raster portion of the image will look when zoomed way in to see detail. Do trials, of course.

Savlich

@dave r said:

I'm not understanding what LayOut has to do with the PDF of the salmon farm but if you want to use small text in your own LayOut projects, you certainly can. Although the font size list only goes down to 8 point, there's nothing to stop you from typing a smaller value. I have one template set up to do dimensions and leader text at 6 point. It works just fine. I wouldn't use a font that small on a page that will print larger than 8-1/2 x 11, though.

I use layout for all my work drawings and then export to PDF. I wanted them to be more like the one the engineer sent me so i didn't have 15+ pages.
Thanks for the info ill try a few things and see what works

Dave R

Now there's a glimmer of understanding.

Yes, try typing in the font size.