Partworks files to pdf files?

[jshoes51]

I have some sample sign designs I did in patworks and I want to send to a prospective customer. They cannot open the .crv, .ai, or .eps files that Partworks lets me create. Is there any way to send them a copy of the drawings without printing/scanning/emailing?

[gerryv]

Jim, If you don't have the full Acrobat program (vs. the free reader), I "believe" you can upload your file to Abobe and have the conversion done to PDF for a small fee and maybe a freeby.
http://createpdf.adobe.com/?Language=ENU
Hope this helps.

[harryball]

You could do a ctrl-print screen, paste it into MSPaint, select and cut the limited view you want, then do New and paste. Then save in the .jpg format.

From there you should be able to do what you want with a jpg file.

Just an idea.

EDIT
And if you didn't know, look on the drawing slide out on your left (opposed to the toolpathing slide out on the right) and see in the upper right the thumbtack. If you click on that you get the entire screen view for graphics. Just click on the tab to re-expand the slide out and click the thumbtack again so it will stick when you want it back.

/RB

[beacon14]

After you do your toolpath preview and get the preview the way you want it to look on the screen, click on "Save Preview Image" down at the lower right corner. You can save the preview output as a .jpg .bmp or .gif

This feature alone is worth the purchase price of PartWorks/VCarve Pro.

[harryball]

There ya go, learn something new every day!

/RB

[gerald_martin]

Check this out: http://www.fineprint.com/ download the free pdf factory software. It will install as a windows printer and you can print to it from any program with printing capability. It really works - I use it for emailing estimates to customers in my "other" business. David Buchsbaum has the right idea, though for picture files. Anyone can open a jpg. file, right?

[handh]

I second the pdf factory, I have used it for years and it works great.

[henrik_o]

Just to add another option, OpenOffice (i.e the open source alternative to the Microsoft Office suite) will output to PDF.

link (http://www.openoffice.org/)

[bcammack]

http://www.pdf4free.com/

[paco]

This is the PDF printer that I use. PDFCreator (http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator)