Aerial images to PDF

[the_mini_guy]

I have been creating pdfs around the 19,000 to 33,000kb size.  Obviously, not much use to email.  Lots of aerial photos, and I would also like to use the gradient hatch more, but that really blows out the size.  Quality is important when dealing with aerials.  Any ideas would be much appreciated,

Thanks.

TMG

[SeanT]

the 'deskers will probably recommend DWF for this.

there was a package a few years ago called PLOT2PDF (http://www.softpedia.com/get/Science-CAD/Plot2PDF.shtml)
this creates vector based PDF's instead of a bunch of dots but it seems to have been discontinued.

I'd assume that the files are a smaller when vector based but would have to test it out.

cheers,
SeanT

[Stuart - LCC]

I used Civil3D a couple of weeks ago to produce a PDF including aerial photography.  Using the C3D built-in "DWG to PDF.pc3" created files around 20Mb.  I was able to get the file size down to around 3Mb by plotting to file using PDF Factory Pro. This acts as a system printer rather than a standalone program like the software Sean suggested.

As far as quality goes, the plot was done to A3 @ 1:4000 and at 100% zoom in a PDF viewer it is hard to notice any drop in quality.  Zooming in on the PDF file does reveal a fair bit of pixellation that does not exist in the original however.

Stuart

[the_mini_guy]

thanks Stuart, will giv it ago, did use the dwg to pdf.pc3 & then pdf writer to print as pdf which often works, but for a change it increased the file size..

Sean, i also downloaded the DWG2PDF & it didnt work at all. Just crashed.

TMG..