Message-Id: <199707310036.RAA32400@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 20:36:35 -0400 From: "J. Trant" <mailto:jtrant@ARCHIMUSE.COM> Subject: Re: CAD drawings To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
If your final goal is to incorporate this image into a page layout, then import the EPS file directly. There is no need to go through Illustrator.jt
At 3:38 PM 30/7/97, Leta Hensen wrote: >>Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 15:09:01 -0500
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>>From: Betsy True <mailto:btrue@facstaff.wisc.edu>
>>
>>>Danny, you had success bringing drawings to Ilustrator from CAD. What did
>>>you do?
>>
>>From the CAD program I selected print, but inside of going to a printed I
>>selected a file as the print destination. This created an EPS file. Autocad
>>asked if I wanted eps 1 or 2, I used 1 but I don't think it matters.
>>I then opened the eps file with Adobe Distiller, which creates a PDF file.
>>Illustrator was then able to open the pdf file.
>>
>>Betsy True
>>Medical Illustrator / Medical Illustration / Univ. of WI-Madison
>>H6/134 CSC / 608-263-6028 / mailto:btrue@facstaff.wisc.edu
>>http://www-medil.medsch.wisc.edu/medil/
>>
>
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