Pdf to dwg in Carlson 2014 Autocad standalone

Not that I'm aware of. However, I have a program called PDF2DXF that I have had VERY good luck with. IF the PDF was made with a computer generator (i.e. printed to pdf rather than scanned), I have had excellent results with regard to scaling the drawing back. If it was scanned, well, you end up rubbersheeting and it's ugly and unsightly and typically doesn't work well.

Not sure how to get a pdf in there. with my civil 3d experience i found out PDFS make the dwg very slow so i always convert the pdf into a jpg or tiff image through a 3rd party software. I do the same thing with Carlson. Runs much smoother than a pdf.

I do know that in Magnet Office Tools its about a 4 click process from PDF to points ready for your DC.

So reiterate what Chevis said, I convert the pdf to a jpg file in Adobe Acrobat, then bring it to Carlson 2014 in as an image file. Of course, then you need to rotate and rescale the image.

Okay, looks like the jpg, tiff proposal is the most promising. I just need an image, I don't need to work with it. Thanks again.

If you just want the pdf inserted in the drawing, the command is PDFattach, but going the jpeg/tiff route is better for performance

A PDF can contain images, paths (polylines) or text. If the PDF is made up exclusively of a scanned image then converting the PDF to an image is the best you can do, that's what the originator should have done. However some PDF files can contain contain paths and text and should not be converted to an image. With proper tools, the extracted paths and text will process much faster as polylines and mtext in the drawing and would plot crisper.

Of course always remember that PDFs use limited page coordinates so don't ever design anything important from their contents.

MISSOURIMULE, post: 331860, member: 9473 wrote: Anybody know how I can bring in a pdf drawing into a dwg in Carlson 2014? Do I have to get a third party converter of can I do it within Carlson?

Thanks for the help.

Type
PDFATTACH
at the command line.

With Carlson running with Autocad 2015, we can drag and drop PDF files.

Yeah, I tried the JPG - Tiff solution and she worked. I'm using carlson 2014 with Autocad 2013. Thanks for the comments.

pdfattach? That is how I attach them.

pmoran, post: 331888, member: 8922 wrote: I do know that in Magnet Office Tools its about a 4 click process from PDF to points ready for your DC.

Please elaborate... I don't undersatnad how this can be.

Jim in AZ, post: 332192, member: 249 wrote: Please elaborate... I don't undersatnad how this can be.

More important is, who would actually stake content from a PDF file. Perhaps I'm influenced by seeing inside hundreds of them. Might be fine for importing a location map, not to scale diagrams, etc.