Exporting complex chains to illustrator / pdf
Exporting complex chains to illustrator / pdf
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While printing my microstation drawing as an .eps or .pdf file, all the complex chains fall apart in to separate lines. In illustrator they must be joined once again which is very time demanding. Is there a way to keep the complex chains as outlines kept together?
RE: Exporting complex chains to illustrator / pdf
What work flow is it that you do anything in illustrator that you couldn't do in microstation first. After all it just becomes a picture for printing once it has become a pdf?
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