Imported a PNG to Layout. I couldn’t read the fine print (too fuzzy) on the document (these are building plans) so I change the image quality to high cause the small print was super fuzzy. Now I can read the small print but layout runs super slow. I am new to layout not sure if I need to change some settings. My laptop has no problem running Sketchup so I am surprised layout is running poorly. All advice would be appreciated thanks!
It would help if you share the LayOut file so we can see exactly what you are working with. What operating system? LayOut won’t run on IOS. What graphics card? “ios” is not a graphics card.
Use the Medium dsiaply resolution while you’re working in LayOut. If you find Medium resolution for PDF export, set that to High. What you see when you are working in LayOut doesn’t exactly match what you’ll get in the PDF export.
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I can’t make out anything if I use medium resolution.
Low voltage plans for Rivington.layout (1.2 MB)
You have the paper size set to 17x11, the image is set to 40x60 in LayOut but at its set resolution should be 36x24. What size do you actually want?
FWIW, your LO file behaves nicely on my PC with an nVidia graphics card.
I have no Idea what size I want. I am just trying to make notes on this job. So I can present the customer some changes. It moves at a normal speed when zoomed in but when zoomed out it runs poorly.
How do I change the paper size and how did you even see those stats.
I really appreciate your help.
How are you going to present this to the client?
There’s only so far out that you can zoom anyway based on the paper size you selected.
In File>Document Setup>Paper.
I used the Dimension Tool to find out that you’ve got the image set to 40 x 60 inches. I opened the image in an image editor to look to see what size it is supposed to be.
See if this works better. I reduces the size of the image so it’ll fit on the 11x17 paper and edited it in the image editor to increase the contrast which should help make it look better. Keep in mind the lines and the text in this image are never going to be incredibly sharp since it’s a raster image. It would be more crisp if you had a vector drawing like the original this image came from.
Low voltage plans for Rivington resized image.layout (1.1 MB)
That runs so much better. Thank you! So if I want to make notes on a drawing like this in the future I need to acquire the vector drawing to have a clearer image? Also is it not a normal practice to make notes on a PDF or PNG on layout?
Whether or not you want to make notes on a drawing like this, if you had a vector file–.dxf or .dwg-- to import, it would appear sharper. Any raster image is going to be pixelized. That’s not specific to LayOut. Just the nature of raster images.
As for the sharpness of the image in LayOut, display resolution will generally not be as good as output resolution. That’s intentional and is done to help keep performance up, especially with integrated graphics processors.
That’s not specifically what LayOut was designed for. You can certainly add text boxes and labels over a raster image if you want, though.
FWIW, if you were running LayOut on Mac you could also insert PDF files but they will come in as raster images, too.
I often bring in details and notes as PDF (Mac). For pure markup I use my iPad and Concepts or Notability.