05-09-2006, 11:08 AM
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daft windoze question!
Sooooooooooooooo...
we need to view Autocads spiffing .DWF format....! (100% not Mac compatible!) I have got Parallels, installed Windoze XP, installed Autocads FREE DWF viewer.... and I can now print our plans from our Architects! GREAT..... only problem is I dont want to print them..... I want to print them as a pdf! Just like you can on MacOSX! But its not there on XP! is it easy/free to print to pdf on Windoze? If so.... how do I do it?  
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05-09-2006, 11:42 AM
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There are some PDF apps on Version Tracker...but I don't have any experience with any of them.
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05-09-2006, 12:20 PM
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Found this by doing a search on google for "windows print to pdf"
http://www.pdf995.com/ No idea if its good though. However I remember that on the Adobe site they had some PPDs you could downlad and install so that you would then have an option to create an Adobe PDF printer and to create PDFs all you ahd to do was print from that printer and it saves as pdf instead physically printing.
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05-09-2006, 12:36 PM
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cheers guys, I think the versiontracker link will prove useful!
I still feel like I have soiled my iMac by loading a 3rd rate OS on it! damn you Autodesk!... your worse than Microsoft
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05-09-2006, 01:34 PM
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yeah autodesk sucks, just wait until you try to build a deploy server with .msi installers deployed to your work stations. It is a long grueling, and pretty much painful process |
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05-09-2006, 03:05 PM
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Well........ Next months task is to learn Maya inside out! Just when I thought I had learnt enough.... I am asked to learn even more! |
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05-09-2006, 03:24 PM
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Good luck Photek! I took a few semesters of Maya in college. It's a good program. I like it better than 3D Studio Max or Strata.
The modeling portion of the program is nice. Personally I got all blurry eyed when it came to IK, and advanced animation. Ironically, if you go to a major place (ILM, Pixar, PDI, etc.) you'll have to learn their proprietary software. They use the out of the box apps for the previsualization...but last I heard most production stuff was all done with home-brewed apps.
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05-09-2006, 03:29 PM
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Maya is made for macintosh platform, but it is owned by autodesk (as is 3dsmax). At my work we have a game developing lab with all dual G5s (2.0s) on their own VLAN, with three render farm machines (each with 32 processors in them) running maya and some render farm type background network app like back burner (but I don't know the name). We have a specific person in charge of that lab so I don't really mess with it, unless one of the macs has a hardware failure then I fix it. however, overall it is pretty damn sweet. I can't believe that highschool kids have access to this stuff nowadays, it amazes me. Plus the render farm has never had a problem once it was installed. It has pretty much just run on its own with no maintence. They do all the cool stuff, modeling, texture mapping, animation, and programming. |
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05-09-2006, 03:30 PM
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hmmmnn..
currently using Cinema4D.... and with the new Intel release being 150% quicker than the PPC version I was gobsmacked to see a visual of mine that would render on a G5 iMac in 2 to 3 min.. render in 16 seconds on a iMacIntel! I am looking forward to learning Maya... but the reason why I use C4D is because I demo'd Maya, Cinema and Lightwave... and Cinema was by far the most accessable of the 3! I am just DLing the 195mb demo version! wish me luck! |
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05-09-2006, 04:01 PM
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I remember somewhere on sourceforge there was this Print to PDF thing for windoes.
I forget what it was called...
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05-10-2006, 11:47 AM
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Here is the link to the instructions to install the Adobe PPD files and how to create the post script printer from it that can output to pdf files.
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