You should also open the Print Properties, click on the Advanced button, and make sure that Print Quality is set to a sufficiently high dpi (e.g. Choose “PDFCreator” as your printer, and select “Selection” or (“Current Page”) as the page range. In your Word or Powerpoint document, select/highlight your line drawing, and go to File > Print. Once installed, you will be able to produce PDF out of any documents that is printable. PDF Freeware Toolsĭisclaimer: The tools described in this section are mainly for use in Windows, and are free-of-charge, but not all are open source.īig thanks to Kevin Klement for pointing me toward PDFCreator and BRISS, true FOSS solutions!įirst get PDFCreator. However, elements and formattings often get distorted when copied over to OODraw, so personally I’d go for the procedures described next. If you have OpenOffice, you can try copying-and-pasting your drawing objects over to OpenOffice Draw, change the page size ( Format > Page…) to fit the drawing just right, then export the drawing to PDF.
Then go to Tools menu and select Crop, or just hit Command-K. Click the Select button on the Toolbar, and draw a rectangle around your drawing diagram.
If you’re on a Mac, first print your drawing diagram as a PDF. See the posts on Diagramming Applications and Drawing diagram the cryptic way instead. So how do I create high-resolution line drawings for use in L aT eX if not the drawing tools in Word? I’ll outline what has worked for me below.
It feels great! But is there any way I can transfer my existing line drawings over as high-resolution PDF or EPS? The publisher is asking for 800-1200 dpi. I’m now migrating my paper/presentation to L aT eX from Microsoft Word/Powerpoint. Recently I was asked this question by not 1, but 3 people, so I guess that makes for a valid blog post!
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