On 06 Aug, Adrian Crafer <acrafer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I received an email containing a jpeg scan/phot image of an
> engineering drawing. Since I need the information as a CAD file (the
> originator could not manage save as DXF - too technical) I loaded it
> into !DPlngScan, which reported the image 24.17M the original email
> reported as 1129K. I saved out as a draw file after converting to
> black and white and reducing the colour depth to 1bpp.
> If loaded into !draw it all looks fine but if resaved over itself, as
> though you were editing, !draw errors with this file already open.
> If the draw file is loaded into Procad+ you get the error message
> Font(s) not found, including 0. On clicking on continue you get a
> complete freeze up which requires Alt Break to get out of.
> Loading the draw file into !RiscDRAW produces a !RiscCAD file which
> when loaded into !RiscCAD produces a very small image bottom left
> which bears no relation to the original draw.
> It looks as though the problem is the !draw file produced by
> !DPlingScan, any ideas.
> Adrian Crafer
Have you thought about trying !Trace to convert from a sprite to a draw
file?
Steve Yandell
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