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Display quality vs PDF WTF?
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Display quality vs PDF WTF?

Display quality vs PDF WTF?

(OP)

Ok. Can anyone tell me what is up with the attached picture? It's a comparison of really terrible SW line display in a drawing next to an Adobe Acrobat PDF of the same document. The Adobe looks wonderful, I'd say even say beautiful. I'd love to see SolidWorks display lines as well. I have tried anti aliasing both on and off. Any suggestions?

http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=659e8472-033f-4ef6-b863-235dc2340647&file=SW_WTF.bmp

RE: Display quality vs PDF WTF?

Sort of looks like the view is set to Draft quality in SW.

RE: Display quality vs PDF WTF?

(OP)

Nope. The Drawing view is set to "High Quality"

RE: Display quality vs PDF WTF?

What video card do you have?

Chris
SolidWorks 08 0.0/PDMWorks 08
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 10-07-07)
ctopher's blog

RE: Display quality vs PDF WTF?

Are there any images on the drawing that might be causing it to default to being stored as a raster instead of a vector data?  Another possibility, did you check the setting of the print window to make sure it was set to max resolution (usually a field in the lower right area of the window)?  Just some quick thoughts.

Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group

RE: Display quality vs PDF WTF?

(OP)

The graphics card is not appropriate for the work (Radon 300(?)) Anyway you are looking at screen capture of the two windows right next to each other. If Adobe adobe can do it then what's SolidWorks problem?

Actually I suspect it's the fact that Adobe's business and claim to fame has been making things look good on computer screens for as long as it's been around. I suspect Acrobat's display algorithms are not graphics card hardware accelerated -- (not anti-aliasing anyway) perhaps someone out there might know better.

fcsuper, Line drawings only. Look a the picture again, the PDF is higher quality than the native SW drawing view. The PDF is displaying vector data in all it's wonderful glory. SolidWworks is all messed up.

Still begs the question:
Why can't SW look as good as a PDF of same drawing?

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RE: Display quality vs PDF WTF?

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If you like pretty pictures in SolidWorks enable FullScreen AntiAliassing in your videocard driver settings.

Default settings:


6x FSAA & 16x AF

Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer
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RE: Display quality vs PDF WTF?

SolidWorks will use up more VC recources than Adobe will.

Chris
SolidWorks 08 0.0/PDMWorks 08
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 10-07-07)
ctopher's blog

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