Fri, 18 Feb  George Myers wrote:

 It worked well in Release 9 and I
> assume it has ever since, Release 14 current and an AutoCAD 2000 in
> the wings.

AutoCAD 2000 has been out for several months.  If you work with
attached raster images (e.g., aerial photos, etc.) I have found that
printing is significantly faster than with R14.

(clip, clip - agreement)

> Another technique I have found useful is scanning field crew profiles
> and plans, using Corel software (cheap) to vectorize them, import them
> into AutoCAD, detail and work  them up as best one can in vector land
> then export them out as raster the best resolution possible, then
> additional edit them in a raster paint program, for color and fills
> and other effects before output to an inkjet

I've been just as happy simply scanning the field profiles and
attaching the raster file to AutoCAD and "tracing" them on the
screen.  Exported as a windows metafile (*.wmf) the resulting
drawing (or portion thereof) can be put in any Word or WordPerfect
graphics box, sized, placed, and captioned to suit.

Even if you don't use OLE, or whatever MS calls the derivative now,
simply emptying a graphics box and then recalling the image will
update it if any changes have been made to the original file, the
box parameters and caption are unaffected.


Paul
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