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patrickm
Joined: 13 Apr 2004
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Location: santa barbara, ca
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 Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:35 pm Post subject: PowerCADD & Pages |
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About a year ago, I switched from Word to Pages for my correspondence. It would be nice if I could copy a drawing from PowerCADD and paste it in Pages with 100% of the formatting coming with the drawing. In Pages, pasted PC objects look okay, but my .25 point lines look the same as the 1.0 point lines, making the Pages output less elegant than actual PC output. It would be really nice if objects pasted into Pages looked as good in Pages as they do in PC. (I frequently put little sketches into field memos, etc.)
I (admittedly) know nothing about computers, but if PC could change something to make the pasting look better, that'd be great.
regards,
patrick
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Paul H
Joined: 15 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:05 am Post subject: |
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patrickm
I exported PC drwg as JPG, imported into Pages and line weights are scaled as drawn. In other words thin is thin, not heavier than drawn. I'm using version of Pages 3.0.1 and OSX 10.4.11.
Paul
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How Goes It
Joined: 02 May 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:18 am Post subject: |
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Understandable that copy & paste would be the preferred way of moving content across programs. Easier to be selective using copy & paste as opposed to Saving As PDF and then dragging the PDF into Pages, likely followed by the Mask or Mask with Shape command to keep out unwanted content.
But out of curiosity ----
If you save a PowerCADD project as a PDF, and then drag that PDF into Pages, does the PDF come across with proper line weights?
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phansford
Joined: 18 Apr 2004
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Location: SW Ohio
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:47 am Post subject: |
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I have been using Pages for my Project sheets for over a year. I create a PDF of the PowerCADD drawing, then I typically cut and paste the area of the drawing that I want to place on the sheet. My line weights stay intact.
I don't know how this will show - but I attached the project sheets for several small park project where I placed the drawing into Pages as I described. You might have to "zoom" in on the graphics to see that the line weights held.
(Nice to see I have a couple of things to change in one of the drawings - ugh)
Of course, detail in the drawing is not important for a Project Sheet and I am trying to keep my Project Sheets to a single page. These are also two projects that I did not make "presentation" drawings..... for obvious reasons 
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