pdf image to ileaf to pdf

[9mmplus]

Let's say you need to reproduce an image that is offered
first in a customer spec. The spec is in pdf, the image is
a black-and-white line drawing, and the image is clean and sharp.

You want to use this image in an Ileaf/Quicksilver document.
Review copies of your document will be circulated in pdf.
There are several ways to get that image into Ileaf, but they
(so far) all seem costly to resolution. The image deteriorates,
sometimes picks up screen-type jaggies, fonts are muddied.
The hardopy print version is often worse than the screen
version.

Have any of you found a way to keep the image clean and
sharp ? Or at least the best way of lesser choices ?

Please advise.

[Dick Margulis]

Presumably (from your description), it isn't really an image; rather,
it's a vector drawing. Yes? No?

If it's a vector drawing, you can open the single page of the PDF
containing the drawing in Adobe Illustrator and then save it as an EPS,
DXF, etc.--whatever your version of ileaf has an import filter for.
(It's been several years since I've used ileaf, and I don't know what
filters are currently available.) That would bring it in as a drawing
object, and you could go from there.

[9mmplus]

Yes, most of them begin life as vector drawings, although they may
be overlayed with outline type or markups or images of some kind. I tried
opening them in Illustrator and saving as EPS files, but for some
reason the Ileaf EPS import filter choked on the files. So, based
on your suggestion, I also tried opening the pdf's in Acrobat, saving the
entire page with art as a tiff file, then editing (cropping) out the
non-image stuff. This works fine !. The Ileaf import filters seem
to like tiff bitmaps of line work and they're editable in the Ileaf
image editor. Acrobat even lets you set the resolution of the tiff,
although of course you can't improve detail that wasn't there at the outset.

Which brings up another question. Is there a direct way to export
the drawings/pictures created with the excellent Ileaf graphics
tools as high resolution bitmaps (tiff, bmp, etc.) ? Some customers
insist on getting everything in MS Word. To make a complex
document in MSWord usually takes using multiple other applications
(such as Illustrator or Cadkey) and then importing the results into
the Word document. Ileaf to Word conversions remain something
of a hassle. But how about art pages only (vector content to bitmap
included) ?

Thanks for your help !

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[Bob Alexander]

We use dxf's from Inventor quite frequently into Quicksilver. What we have
found is that you must save them as R12 files and then Quicksilver reads
them quite well. Haven't found away to get rid of the different groupings
during the import process though.

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