When will Trimble produce a product that actually works properly?
Connect - waste of space. I have managed to share ONE model. The rest fail to convert.
Layout - No matter what I do this waste of space will not export text. This has been going on for a very long time - see my previous posts. Isn’t it about time that this bug is sorted? One field is exported. All the other text is exactly the same size.
Hi Guys,
I can’t share the file as it has confidential information in it. However, I overwrote the confidential information with TEXT TEXT and tried again and it worked. I have tried to upload it but it will not upload.
Why would it work this time and not the previous time? All that I have done is overwrite the text? This happens every time I export images from LAYOUT. I know it’s
impossible to say without the file.
I myself never need to export to JPG but I understand that there is currently, or used to be, a bug that causes this. So the workaround would be to export to PDF and convert that to JPG in a PDF editor like Acrobat or PDF Xchange Editor. Also make sure that you are running the latest maintenance release of SketchUp/LayOut, as I am not sure if this is already fixed.
I use a mixture of formats., I have found that if I export to jpg, or png, and then import them into powerpoint to create a client mood board, the pdf is less than half the size of the pdf created directly out of Layout. The files that I deliver to clients are pdf or jpg.
The size of PDF files exported from LayOut can be often drastically reduced with a “save optimized” or “reduce file size” function available in PDF editors like Adobe Acrobat or PDF Xchange editor. The same goes for CAD/BIM applications in general, many produce bloated PDF files.