Dave,
Your images look great. Both.
I do render (export) as a vector. Either a pdf or eps. Smaller files work great. But larger files just stall out the app and then it eventually crashes. All attempts I have made in LO seem to only be working as raster type files and not vector.
Yes I did set to high resolution. Still the quality is not anything close to exporting a vector based pdf. In fact a pdf export out of SU can be edited with Adobe Illustrator which is great. I have often used AI to touch up, clean up and edit colors.
When exporting a pdf from LO it creates a non vector image...it is pixel based.
I did try a few shots in LO. They are not as a high a resolution as I get from 2D exports into a pdf directly from SU. They are very pixilated and look about as good as a screen shot. In fact they look like screen shots with the background. The beauty of the exports from SU ifs that they are high res and have transparent backgrounds which is great for layouts in InDesign. So it is the vector exports I seek but with the larger type files it seems SU gets a headache.
I am trying to export directly from Sketchup...thx Chris. I will try layout but not as familiar with it. I like various angles I can get with SU and my only experience with LO was with basic views.
K
I have always had problems when I export larger files to a 2D pdf file. These look great when the export well and I like to use them for presentations over screen shots that I often default to when I have issues. I recently started also trying to "print" to a pdf. Seemed to be a little better but still on the larger files I am working with I just get the pin wheel spinning forever.
Using a MacBook Pro
Sketchup 8 pro
I use a lot of the plugins that smooth corners and have wondered if that is making the geometry too complex.
Any help greatly appreciated as I am trying to get a presentation completed today to send to a client first thing tomorrow morning.
thx
Ken
I have always had problems when I export larger files to a 2D pdf file. These look great when the export well and I like to use them for presentations over screen shots that I often default to when I have issues. I recently started also trying to "print" to a pdf. Seemed to be a little better but still on the larger files I am working with I just get the pin wheel spinning forever.
Using a MacBook Pro
Sketchup 8 pro
I use a lot of the plugins that smooth corners and have wondered if that is making the geometry too complex.
Any help greatly appreciated as I am trying to get a presentation completed today to send to a client first thing tomorrow morning.
thx
Ken
Thank you Gilles and driven......especially the example driven gave me...that worked.
happy new year!
I have read and re-read the docs for these plugins. I wanted to try "rounded corners" from Fredo6
I am running Mac OS Snow Leopard on a MacBook
I downloaded all the files mentioned that I would need to support this plugin. When I click on the files to download them from the website they land in my "download" folder but they are not "zip (rbz)" files. They are coming in just as .rb file and open up as a text file. I downloaded these shown in this screen shot. But only the "Simplify Contours" shows up in my Window menu. I have tried in bring them in through the preferences menu but they are all grey-out. A new option just showed up in my Windows menu called "Additional Folders for Plugins". I attempted to type in a path leading to the plugins but that didn't work and I got an error message.
I am sure this is something simple I am missing but I just don't get it!
Help! THX!!!!
