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fiors
Newbie Joined: 23.Nov.2010 Location: United States Using: AutoCAD2011, Revit2011, 3DS MAX 2011 Status: Offline Points: 19 |
Topic: plotting on a black background Posted: 08.Dec.2010 at 07:12 |
Hi guys.
So this seems like a fairly simple issue but I can't seem to figure it out.
I want to plot to PDF on a black background...
Thoughts?
Thanks!!!
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tulip3D
Senior Member Joined: 23.Jul.2009 Location: United States Using: AutoCAD2011, Inventor2011 Status: Offline Points: 427 |
Posted: 08.Dec.2010 at 13:50 |
Paper is white. I cant even imagine the reason for doing that....unless you mean to plot something directly from model space...which may be black.
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HAWDesigner
Senior Member Joined: 04.Aug.2008 Location: United States Using: AutoCAD R14, AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD 2010 Status: Offline Points: 310 |
Posted: 13.Dec.2010 at 22:36 |
My only thought on this is to take a screenshot of the area you want plotted, then paste the image into your favorite 'paint' or graphics program. Other than that, I don't think it can be done. Sorry
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fiors
Newbie Joined: 23.Nov.2010 Location: United States Using: AutoCAD2011, Revit2011, 3DS MAX 2011 Status: Offline Points: 19 |
Posted: 13.Dec.2010 at 23:07 |
I just ended up changing my plot style so that white plotted white and exported into illustrator. Another handy way I discovered is placing a solid black hatch behind everything and doing the plot style change. If that happens to be useful for anyone else facing the problem.
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HAWDesigner
Senior Member Joined: 04.Aug.2008 Location: United States Using: AutoCAD R14, AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD 2010 Status: Offline Points: 310 |
Posted: 13.Dec.2010 at 23:30 |
Ahhh...yep, that sure is another way to handle it.
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Cad64
Senior Member Joined: 17.Apr.2010 Location: United States Using: Autocad 2011, 3DS Max 2011, Photoshop CS5 Status: Offline Points: 491 |
Posted: 13.Dec.2010 at 23:34 |
Or just plot to pdf as you normally would, then open the pdf in Photoshop and Invert.
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fiors
Newbie Joined: 23.Nov.2010 Location: United States Using: AutoCAD2011, Revit2011, 3DS MAX 2011 Status: Offline Points: 19 |
Posted: 13.Dec.2010 at 23:42 |
Well I wanted to keep vectors and I was plotting with color ( oranges yellows and reds on black plotted 7'x3'. Looked sick!).
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HAWDesigner
Senior Member Joined: 04.Aug.2008 Location: United States Using: AutoCAD R14, AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD 2010 Status: Offline Points: 310 |
Posted: 13.Dec.2010 at 23:45 |
Hahaha, yeah, paint will invert too. I didn't think of that, but as fiors stated, it would pretty much have to be a B&W image.
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_mac
Newbie Joined: 29.Apr.2009 Status: Offline Points: 2 |
Posted: 14.Dec.2010 at 02:37 |
I have done something similar, but instead of a black background I plotted my drawing in a colored background.
Some PDF drivers allows you to specify your background colors, I am using PDF995. |
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fiors
Newbie Joined: 23.Nov.2010 Location: United States Using: AutoCAD2011, Revit2011, 3DS MAX 2011 Status: Offline Points: 19 |
Posted: 14.Dec.2010 at 03:10 |
Sweet.
Thanks I'll give it a try
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