[SML] Cleaning up drawings

[Richard Niederberg]

Velum is helpful, too, as is onionskin tracing paper.
/s/ Richard
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On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Bill Sapsis via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> Did you try a drafting table, parallel and a mechanical pencil?
>
> :-)
>
> Bill S
>
> Sent from my #%!^¥? iPhone.
>
> On Oct 9, 2016, at 5:23 PM, Randy Storms via Stagecraft <
> stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>
> I have a hard copy of a ground plan that I would like to modify and use as
> a "venue" layer in Drafty.  Drafty will only import .PDFs.  When I scan my
> hard copy, I can save it as a .PDF, but I cannot then make changes
> (cropping, removing unwanted dimensions, etc.)   If I save it as a .jpg
> instead I can bring it into MSPaint or something, but the quality is very
> poor.  I tried saving it as a bitmap and then "tracing bitmap" in
> Vectorworks, but that did not really work.  I tried placing it as a layer
> in Vectorworks and then manually re-drawing on top in a different layer,
> but it was A) awkward and B) every time I would adjust the view (zooming
> in, for example) one layer would zoom and the other would not.
>
> Anyway, does anyone have a good way to get a clean, editable drawing from
> a scan of a hard-copy drawing?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Randy Storms
> randy.storms at mountbakertheatre.com
>
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/s/ Richard
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