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PHOTOWORKS VECTOR OUTPUT

PHOTOWORKS VECTOR OUTPUT

PHOTOWORKS VECTOR OUTPUT

(OP)
I am trying to render to a file that my advertising department can use.  They want a vector based file.  They are telling me that all of the options are bit map style.

Is there another way I can save a rendering that they can use?

thanks for the help

RE: PHOTOWORKS VECTOR OUTPUT

Nope.  Not a vector-based image.  Unless you save a line drawing to PDF format, no vectors.

 

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people who value security over freedom will soon find they have neither.

RE: PHOTOWORKS VECTOR OUTPUT

By the way, you can save a rendering at huge resolutions (they take a long time).  I've never had marketing shinies give me a problem with high-resolution raster images, so it sounds to me like their vector-only demand is a bit inflexible.  (How big will they possibly blow it up?)

 

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people who value security over freedom will soon find they have neither.

RE: PHOTOWORKS VECTOR OUTPUT

From my understanding a vector based raytrace image is an impossibility.

Raytracing uses a method of backtracing the rays of light that enter the camera scene. If you dont have a raster grid (output resolution) to start with then the rays would have to be calculated from each light source, this would exponentially increase the amount of calculation needed. Since relatively few of the rays of light that leave each source actually enter the camera, most go off to nowhere leaving an indeterminate system.

nick

RE: PHOTOWORKS VECTOR OUTPUT

You might want to give http://vectormagic.com a try.

I have a friend that is in the sign business, and this works really well, though there is a cost associated.

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RE: PHOTOWORKS VECTOR OUTPUT

Try:
Save as a drawing. Then "Save as" and change the file type to either Adobe Photoshop Files (*.psd) or Adobe Illustrator (*.ai).
They should be able to import these file types and use as they please.

Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 06/08
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