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Old 7th June 2005, 01:07 PM   #1
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Please help,

I would like to output my model to a postscript or eps file.

I could not find an easy way to do this in AC3D, but I did find that Geomview can output to a postscript file.

Unfortunately, I am having trouble exporting my file to Geomview v 1.8.1:

When I use ac3d to export to VRML, Geomview complains: Unknown field "IndexedLineSet" when I try to convert from VRML to OOGL

A few years back I was able to get Geomview to read VRML files, but now something has changed.

Any suggestions would be great to either:
1) generate a postscript file using AC3D, or
2) getting my ac3d file into Geomview.

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Old 7th June 2005, 02:35 PM   #2
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Hi Dave,

Does a VRML file go into Geomview if you don't have any lines, only polygons?

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Old 7th June 2005, 02:41 PM   #3
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From a bit of Googling - Geomview's file format (.off) - which AC3D imports, supports only polygons, not lines.

A quick peak at the .off importer shows that a .off exporter would be easy to write but I think you should probably try exporting only polygons as VRML and putting those files into Geomview.

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Old 7th June 2005, 03:43 PM   #4
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Thanks Andy,

Removing the lines worked.

Now I need to figure out how to convert my model into poly ... and look right.

Is there any other way to get a postscript rendering of the view from ac3d? The Geomview postscript output is nice.

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Old 7th June 2005, 04:12 PM   #5
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Andy,

I just noticed a couple more things.

The Geomview postscript snapshot does not render objects with transparency properly. Also, the edges between surfaces are not very smooth. So perhaps I am not going to be able to use postscript at all?

I was attempting to create a file that would be smaller and more portable than a high resolution tiff for electronic publication, but it looks like I am going to have to use tiff.

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Old 7th June 2005, 05:26 PM   #6
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How about using png? It's non-lossy isn't it?

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Old 7th June 2005, 05:36 PM   #7
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Andy,

Actually, I was trying to generate a portable vector based graphic (such as postscript) which would not be resolution bound with minimal file size.

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Hi all - been at the beach for a week and just catching up - I use swift 3D which takes several 3D formats and outputs to several 2D vector formats including Flash. The AI output works best for me. You can download a tryout at www.erain.com. It is a bit pricey, but it works well.

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