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LawrenceS18-Opal
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September 1, 2020
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How to turn off floating gray tag text on drawings to save as a clean image (e.g.png)?

  • September 1, 2020
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See image below:

lscheeler_0-1598982048743.png

 

The config option "display_dwg_tol_tags no" turns off the 4 lines for the tolerance tags however I also want to turn off the other side which shows:

  • Scale
  • Type
  • Name
  • Size

 

Alternatively since I really just want to export a clean image of a drawing, if you have any other way to create an image that can be clean, please let me know (I don't see any configuration options in the save as .png dialog)...?

 

Thanks, Lawrence

Best answer by LawrenceS

Although it doesn't exactly get me to the final destination, I did find a workaround to hide the gray text for direct save as png file type.

  1. Set background color to white by setting system colors to Black on White
    • File: Options: System Appearance: System Colors: Black on White
  2. Set Secondary Highlighting to white
    • File: Options: System Appearance: Global Colors: Graphics: Secondary Highlighting to white (by setting color pallet to R:255 G:255 B:255)
    • When this is done the system colors change from Black on White to Custom, which is fine but is why the attached screenshot shows custom.
    • For reasons I didn't explore, changing secondary highlighting doesn't change the color of this text when on the good old black background drw (or blue background model).  Thankfully I found it anyway since I needed a white background but one could easily have missed this and thought it was not possible to change the color of the floating gray text.

lscheeler_0-1601396173627.png

 

 

Unfortunately, the scaling and the fickle resolution 'control' based on zoom level may still be an insurmountable problem for us.  Feel free to post anything else if you find something that may help.   Thank you all for your ideas and help in this thread!

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kdirth
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kdirth21-Topaz I
21-Topaz I
September 1, 2020

Use Save As.  You can choose png.tiff or pic.

 

I always save as pdf.  This preserves scale and can also be resave as an image if needed.

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    Chris321-Topaz I
    21-Topaz I
    September 1, 2020

    Its confusing, but there is a tiff "printer". If you go to file -> Print and then click the "Settings" button. Next to the printer field there is a +drop down arrow. Click "Add Printer Type" and then pick TIFF from the bottom.

     

    Choose print to file and then after you have browsed to a file location, change the extension to .TIFF

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      LawrenceS18-OpalAuthor
      18-Opal
      September 2, 2020

      This is an interesting solution that I would not have stumbled on, and it appears to work as you stated.  However, after doing this, I cannot increase the resolution and the image is pretty poor quality.  Do you know where I could increase the resolution?  I have not been able to find it yet in any of the settings...

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      Chris321-Topaz I
      21-Topaz I
      September 2, 2020

      drawing_shaded_view_dpi 300

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        LawrenceS18-OpalAuthorAnswer
        18-Opal
        September 29, 2020

        Although it doesn't exactly get me to the final destination, I did find a workaround to hide the gray text for direct save as png file type.

        1. Set background color to white by setting system colors to Black on White
          • File: Options: System Appearance: System Colors: Black on White
        2. Set Secondary Highlighting to white
          • File: Options: System Appearance: Global Colors: Graphics: Secondary Highlighting to white (by setting color pallet to R:255 G:255 B:255)
          • When this is done the system colors change from Black on White to Custom, which is fine but is why the attached screenshot shows custom.
          • For reasons I didn't explore, changing secondary highlighting doesn't change the color of this text when on the good old black background drw (or blue background model).  Thankfully I found it anyway since I needed a white background but one could easily have missed this and thought it was not possible to change the color of the floating gray text.

        lscheeler_0-1601396173627.png

         

         

        Unfortunately, the scaling and the fickle resolution 'control' based on zoom level may still be an insurmountable problem for us.  Feel free to post anything else if you find something that may help.   Thank you all for your ideas and help in this thread!

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