Color of Exported Images

[Bruce Kieffer]

What I see in my Vectorworks file is what I want to see when I export the image, but it is not. Is there a file format or setting that will give me the same results as what I see in Vectorworks?

 

This screen shot is accurate. Oddly it can reproduce the colors extremely close (if not exactly the same), but Vectorworks cannot.

 

This is a JPG export:

 

This is a PNG export:

 

This is a PDF export:

Murphy Bed Queen Complex.pdf

 

[Bruce Kieffer]

Tech support feels this is due to Vectorworks converting from RGB to CMYK when exporting.

[FrancescoTadini]

I have the same problem.

Can I ask you what are the rendering settings did you use? I like the simple but shaded colors. Similar to SketchUp!

 

Thanks

Francesco

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On 2/21/2017 at 3:46 PM, Bruce Kieffer said:

Tech support feels this is due to Vectorworks converting from RGB to CMYK when exporting.

I have the same problem. Did you find any solution to this?

[Bruce Kieffer]

I haven't been too concerned about this since I retired, but I think that it was fixed or at least improved in newer version of Vectorworks.

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On 1/24/2023 at 3:17 AM, Bruce Kieffer said:

I haven't been too concerned about this since I retired, but I think that it was fixed or at least improved in newer version of Vectorworks.

It's definitely still a problem in VW2023, if you use "export as PDF".

 

If you go to "print" and then in the print dialogue select "save as PDF" as the destination, instead of a printer, the PDF produced that way seems to have undistorted colour, so this is a workaround of sorts, but it doesn't help if you are batch-exporting drawing sheets via the "publish" command.