[Triumf-linux-managers] printing big acad files from drawing office

[Rick Baartman]

This is for people who have linux (no acad) who want to print a large 
drawing from dwg file on 11X17 paper.

1. take the acad file, run it through cad2svg:
/usr/bin/cad2svg -g 30000x30000 
to make a svg file. The default is 3000 but that's often too little 
resolution.

2. run inkscape to view the svg file, print it to postscript at 300dpi 
("print using postscript operators"). It's useless to print this as it 
is black, and is wrong orientation on a portrait page. But inkscape is 
far better equipped than GIMP at converting to ps.

3. Import to GIMP at 300dpi, crop it, change mode to indexed (need only
8 colors), change colors (black to white, white to black, darken the
others, then save as an eps file, but change the width to 17in, height 
to 11in.

4. gv the eps file, print with page size set to Tabloid, Landscape 
(might have to hit "Keep"). You can also eps2pdf the file as the 
resulting file is 10 times smaller.


-- 
rick baartman