black lines are grey when exporting autocad .pdf to photoshop help!!?

Question

im trying to place autocad pdf in photoshop with no luck :( when i go to place the lines turn grey instead of staying black- i have tried everything including changing the plotter style manager to monochrome.

thanks in advance! :)

Answer 1

Well monochrome is the right answer to keep it black, so what I gather is, when you make the PDF everything turns out black but when you open it with photoshop your lines turn gray? If that is the case photoshop is losing some stuff in translation, it is treating it as a picture file.



My suggestion is ether thicken up the lines when you plot to PDF or try saving the autocad image as something else other than PDF to import to photoshop, maybe a jpeg or sort. Sometimes I make cartoons and I like to draw them in autocad so I copy and paste the lines into MSpaint this gives me the black outline, then I open it up in photoshop and color it in.



Tip if you try to paste it in MS paint and you have a black background and white lines, in MS Paint go to Image>invert colors or CTRL+I.



If none of this helped, please further elaborate on your problem and I will try to help you more.

Answer 2

Are the lines looking grey on the screen, or screen and print too? I am not good with autocad but I know a lot about photoshop, if the colors are printing okay but looking wrong on the screen, then I would look to change your color profile in photoshop.



Try to print and let me know what happens, I 'll check back.

Answer 3

I've used Adobe Illustrator to import DXF files from Autocad and create PDFs. Worked well.