Jane Davis

Sorry I disappeared on you. I think it is a Windows thing. If I generate a the character in Excel or Word when I paste it into VW I get the last line only - this is also happening in your sample file so all I see is fum from fee fi fo fum. Still playing but I think the system is trying to stop me with more determination than I expected.

Thanks, the Carriage Return seems like the trick but your character is not cooperating with me - should this be a Unicode character? I am not averse to a little light hacking. One other thing that may be getting in my way is that this is overriding data that is coming from the Plant record. Although I may be able to put a carriage return into the record itself. Hmmm - you are giving me ideas so I am off to play with this a bit

Anyone know how to get a line break in a worksheet cell. Maybe I'm missing it but I can't find how to do this

Hmmm - saving it from there as a PDF and keeping the resolution as 600 DPI is looking good. I will try getting this printed tomorrow. Thank you all for your input - I have been tearing my hair out.

Grant - thanks for the thoughts - I really do not want to fork out for Acrobat Pro though I realize that would probably do it. Print to file on Print is using the print driver options - I get Adobe distiller, and some very weird results. On the PNG front - I have one file that is working fine but another that is showing gray boxes around white areas and also is running out of memory in no time. I have rebooted in case of a memory leak.

OK PNG at 300 DPI is OK and the shadow was on an image - 600 DPI was better but I ran out of memory - Oh for a machine that I could get to 1200 DPI. Adobe fuzzes it a bit when it goes into Acrobat but hopefully it is good enough. Now I hope my client is OK once it gets to paper Thanks all

I feel like I am being really picky but if I export as PNG I get shadows around white areas - which I use as background to make text stand out on hatches.

I am on Windows and there is no quartz filter. And grayscale conversion is only available in Acrobat Pro, not Standard. I do not want to spend the money..... BTW I thought maybe I had missed a variation but I went export PDF, into Photoshop in grayscale and save to PDF and that is really fuzzy.

Are you using an automatic distribution rate because it works out for me correctly if the distribution rate is correct (i.e. each at 50%). The automatic rate works to have the same number of plants and different area coverage (33.3% to 66.6%).

I have a client who wants designs that are available in color and grayscale 24x36 as PDF. Sounds pretty simple but I cannot get the grayscale version really sharp so the text is clear. I have Photoshop essentials (not Pro) and Acrobat. I have discarded the idea of using JPEG anywhere because of the lossiness. I have a perfect result exporting as PDF at 300dpi, opening that in Photoshop, converting to grayscale and saving as GIF and creating a PDF. Except that makes a file that thinks it is 150" x 100". If I export as PNG I get fuzziness. TIFF has strange tonal effects. Any help would be welcome

I use notes to do this and set criteria, I have also used classes. It does not seem onerous to select all the plants you want to add together and change the class on them. Magic Select makes getting each one you want quite easy. You can change class values or anything else without affecting your template.

Import PDF is working for me for a single page PDF - more details of what you are imported are needed

I worked this one out to my satisfaction by playing. I removed the landscape area plants from the main list (I do this by putting a value in the comments section and testing that with a field value in the select criteria). I then appended a report that contained the landscape area plants separately. Now comes the dinky bit. I use default insert image function for the main plant list but for the landscape areas I do the insert image and then go to format cells. On the image tab I set it to image type 2D attributes rather than thumbnail and I get a nice block of my hatch.

Hi, I have used plant lists with Insert Image for a while and it works great but usually I cheat on plants for landscape areas, which I use for ground covers. Usually I guess the number of flats I need and use a pseudo plant off the printable area and add a plant which has a 2D representation of a square of the hatch I am using for my landscape area for each flat I need and have no plant setting actually in the landscape area itself. Now I would like to get a plant count from the landscape area itself - which it does very nicely - but even when I have an individual plant defined on the plan I do not get my image. Can anyone help?

For landscape architects/designers. We do not work only on flat surfaces - paths and driveways often slope, and all hardscape needs some grading to allow for runoff. We need to be able to position hardscape objects in 3 dimensions. This request occurs frequently in various net discussions and has done since VW 2008.