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Export Drawings to Other File Formats | 719
To create a Portable Network Graphics file (PNG)
1 On the command line, enter pngout.
2 In the Create Raster File dialog box, select a folder, enter a file name, and
click OK.
AutoCAD appends the .png extension to the file name.
3 Select the objects you want to save.
Command line
PNGOUT
PostScript Files
The PostScript file format type is used by many desktop publishing applica-
tions. Its high-resolution print capabilities make it preferable to raster for-
mats, such as GIF, PCX, and TIFF. By converting the drawing to a PostScript
format, you can also use PostScript fonts.
You can customize the appearance of PostScript output in many ways by
editing the AutoCAD PostScript support file acad.psf This is useful if you want
to perform output functions such as assigning different line widths for differ-
ent colors or creating special linetypes with the PostScript setdash function.
Export in PostScript Format
When you export a file in PostScript format as an EPS file, some AutoCAD
objects are specially rendered.
Text, attribute definitions, attributes. If you specify the font file for con-
verting the text objects in the font substitution map of the PostScript support
file acad.psf, AutoCAD plots the text using the PostScript font you specified.
Otherwise, AutoCAD renders the text using outlined characters. The acad.psf
file must be in the support directory specified in the Options dialog box.
Thickened text, text control codes. If AutoCAD text has a thickness greater
than 0 or contains control codes (such as %%O or %%D), it is not plotted as
PostScript text, although the text is accurately rendered. International and
special symbols (such as %%213) are output as PostScript text.