Hello,
Zooming on a exported PDF plot, it's a pain on large projects, because even if you print it with a small weight, like 0.3, this is difficult to read informations on zooming, and le lines are a bit crappy.
But on the screen, on paper view, every lines are vectorised, so it's readable and look pretty.
Can we please, look into a real vectoriesed PDF like other cad lighting plots can do ?
Thank you to consider, it will be a game changer on large plots.
Whether the exported plot is vectorised or rasterised would not affect the thickness of lines though. What you are asking for would not solve the problem.
Unfortunately PDF is a print medium format that scales with the paper. This means that as you zoom in, lines thicken. As far as I know it's not possible to maintain constant on-screen line thickness with PDF. Do you have PDFs from other CAD software that accomplishes this?
Hello Lars
Thank you for the answer,
Sorry about the non good function mentionned for the "vectorised" lines, but you're right, the goal is to maintain constant on-screen line thickness with PDF.
Here you can find the PDF mentionned on the screen example. As far as I know, it was drowing and export by Wysiwyg
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i seems like the core issue is capture creates an image to put it in the pdf instead converting it to vectors like any other cad software.
when i import capture pdfs into vectorworks all the lines are just pixels on an image and they dont allow me to snap cursor to.
i always thought capture does this to force ppl into their ecosystem because exporting to pdf makes the plot useless unless you wanna just print
Thanks @Jo MARTIN, we'll look into that. It appears to be using a non-standardised extension that works in some viewers and possibly not in others. But it's worth investigating.
No @benjaminauer, that's not the reason. We would never want to lock anyone into our ecosystem, on the contrary we believe in having open import and export formats. Unlike many CAD softwares Capture's plots aren't simply wireframe, there are some solid shapes like annotation plates and objects rendered as solid outline. These are graphical compositions that aren't very easy to convert to vector graphics. Also PDF is by nature a print medium, even though people don't use it like that any more. Line widths for print are normally defined in points, just like text size, because they have a relation to a physical printout. PDF simply isn't a good format for screen viewing because it isn't really made for it.