<div dir="ltr">Velum is helpful, too, as is onionskin tracing paper.<div>/s/ Richard</div><div>_________</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Bill Sapsis via Stagecraft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Did you try a drafting table, parallel and a mechanical pencil?</div><div id="m_-5706490675220503285AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_-5706490675220503285AppleMailSignature">:-)</div><div id="m_-5706490675220503285AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_-5706490675220503285AppleMailSignature">Bill S <br><br>Sent from my #%!^¥? iPhone.</div><div><br>On Oct 9, 2016, at 5:23 PM, Randy Storms via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>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.<div><br></div><div>Anyway, does anyone have a good way to get a clean, editable drawing from a scan of a hard-copy drawing?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Randy Storms</div><div><a href="mailto:randy.storms@mountbakertheatre.com" target="_blank">randy.storms@<wbr>mountbakertheatre.com</a></div>
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