dwg to tiff ?

Looking for a way to convert a dwg file to a tif. Autodesk does this
but the quality of the tiff file is poor and the file size is too big.
any suggestions would be appreciated.
thanks

 

i would save it as a pdf file.

much higher quality and smaller size.

we have a link to a good free pdf writer in the free section of our web
site.


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Hi, I would love to save this as a pdf file but my client wants me to
send them tif files...why i have no idea..when i could supply the dwg
files,,but hey that is what the client wants...only it is causing me
allot of hastle finding something that can produce a tif file..so any
help would be appreciated.
thanks again

 

HiHo;
Save the dwg as a wmf then use Oriens Enhancer GOLD
at this site http://www.oriens-solution.com/ to convert to a
tiff. It's free.

 

If you have acrobat rel.5 or rel.6 (not acrobat reader!) you can export
the pdf file as a tif file!!
nimbus

 

Install a EPS-Plotter from the File Pulldownmenu "add neu printer" in
AutoCAD(choose PostSriptLevel1 for example). Than print the file digital
as a *.eps-file with the PostScriptLevel-printer. Go to Photoshop and
open it. Give the resolution you think is good for you (it comes a
dialog-box, everytime you open *.eps in Photoshop.)
It takes a couple of minutes.Flatten all to the backgroundlayer. Save it
as *.tiff-file with the resolution and quality you wish for.

That's the best way I know. Its unfortunately a pre-condition that you
have Photoshop.

 

We use ViewCompanion (www.softwarecompanions.com) to convert our
hpgl/2 plot files to TIF. Generally they will still be bigger than
the plot file even with appropriate compression methods. But that is
more a limitation of raster files in general.

-Tim