Unshaded poly render - reduce filesize?

[Andrew Davies]

Hello -

I have a 2D viewport which I am rendering using the Unshaded polygon setting. As some of the objects are drawn in 3D, they don't look good in Wireframe.

However, the file size of an exported PDF is huge (approx 14MB as opposed to a wireframe version which is about 0.5MB)

Does anyone have any suggestions for either :

a) reducing the exported file size of a viewport rendered as an Unshaded Poly

b) allowing wireframe to apply a fill to a 3d object.

Any help much appreciated.

Regards,

Andrew

[Andrew Davies]

Hello

Just been searching on Google for an answer and a link to my own post is all I can find.

Can anyone help??

Now on VW2012

Andrew

[Kizza]

Hi Andrew,

You could try the following:

1) Use a pdf optimisation utility to reduce the file size. I have been able to reduce pdf file size by up to 30%. In your case however, it may not be enough.

2) From within VW, save as an eps file, open in Illustrator and save as pdf, using pdf compression options available in Illustrator.

3) Use a lower DPI setting in the export PDF command in VW.

I used a variation of option 2 to get reasonable file size. see this post

Edited January 31, 2012 by Kizza

[Kizza]

Hello -

b) allowing wireframe to apply a fill to a 3d object.

I've heard of some of the pro's from this board use duplicate VP's with different render settings and hidden classes to get a combination render - I'm not sure if it would be possible to have a wireframe render with your 3D objects in another viewport with a different render mode.

Think it was a post from either Dworks or VincentC

[Kizza]

Re your file size issue:

see this thread