Display quality vs PDF WTF?
Display quality vs PDF WTF?
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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?
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RE: Display quality vs PDF WTF?
RE: Display quality vs PDF WTF?
Nope. The Drawing view is set to "High Quality"
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Chris
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AutoCAD 06
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Matt Lorono
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RE: Display quality vs PDF WTF?
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?
Default settings:
6x FSAA & 16x AF
Stefan Hamminga
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RE: Display quality vs PDF WTF?
Chris
SolidWorks 08 0.0/PDMWorks 08
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 10-07-07)
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