MattG Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 I am trying to export a sheet layer as a image with a clear background and currently am without luck in being able to accomplish this. I am in the sheet layer I go to file - export - image file. For selected area I have the radio button for each page as a separate image checked and the proper dimensions are set. For format I have tired PNG and Tiff image, but no luck without going into the exported image and doing some editing. The bulk of my sheetlayer does not have any geometry on it and I want that area to remain clear. Does anyone have a way of doing this? Quote Link to comment
monkey Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 i would have thought that PNG would have done it. maybe try photoshopping them Quote Link to comment
MattG Posted November 7, 2012 Author Share Posted November 7, 2012 That's what I would have thought as well, but no. I really don't want to take the time to open in photoshop and deal with it that way, it is a lot of files and that is quite time consuming. Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 sounds like may be worth setting a background color and creating a simple photoshop droplet. Quote Link to comment
MattG Posted November 7, 2012 Author Share Posted November 7, 2012 Yes I understand it can be done in Photoshop, but I do not wish to take that extra step. I would have to believe there is some way of doing that in vectorworks. Quote Link to comment
Chris D Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 Have you tried EPS...it's a vector format and doesn't take the background with it. Depends what your target application is.. Quote Link to comment
MattG Posted November 7, 2012 Author Share Posted November 7, 2012 Not a bad idea. Two slight problems in my application. My end result is to export all the pages on my sheet layers as images to put into a power point presentation. I want each of these images separate. Doing this as a eps doesn't work like exporting a image file. I than have to go through and break every area I want as a separate image to be a separate image. This does not work for my application as I am constantly changing things for this project. Also I did drop a eps into the power point presentation to see how it would work. It will go int the presentation, but it looks very different than a standard image, it is very pixelated on text. That does not serve my purpose either. My problem is that I have a consistent page size on my sheet layer and often times the viewport or geometry does not fill the whole paper, so having that are in the presentation appear white on a dark background in the presentation looks silly. Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 Have you tried copy/paste from the sheet layer to PP or photoshop? Quote Link to comment
IanH Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 A client of mine found that pasting images into powerpoint (on Mac) resulted in lower quality images. This was with scanned hand drawn images rather than VW generated jpgs. Quote Link to comment
grant_PD Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 I know you're trying to avoid photoshop but... If you export the sheet layers as pdf. Then open them in photoshop it will not have a background, as it does not see the paper white. This would/should be a fairly simple action/droplet to make. Quote Link to comment
MattG Posted November 8, 2012 Author Share Posted November 8, 2012 Part of the problem with that is also that typically all the white becomes clear, I just want the area without geometry to become clear, not a fill on a white rectangle? Does this make sense? Matt Quote Link to comment
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