Overview

Contents - Glossary - Job - Renderstyles - Settings - Viewing

Cad Publisher processes DXF, "drawing interchange file", files that have been saved from the CAD program in ASCII or Binary form.

Cad Publisher has been designed to bring the strengths of CAD, graphics and engineering formats together.

It provides a versatile and accurate means of generating files that render objects to the users requirements.

Cad Publisher acts on an input file (DXF) and user settings to produce high quality output files.

Job Card
Cad Publisher creates its output files according to user controlled settings from a Job Card.

All of these inputs can be saved on a Job Card in a Job file for use over and over again.

It is central to the processing of files.

Easy version users would use the options from the main menu.

Settings
The user controlled settings of Cad Publisher allow you to set up the Positioning of the cad file onto a specific page size, Layer Visibility, Output Ordering, Renderstyle assignment and Font control.

The real power of Cad Publisher is the ability to render the image with Renderstyles that have been created in the Renderstyles Library area and then assigning those Renderstyles to the layers or colors in the settings file.

You can then use the setup to process one file or any number of files for un-attended file creation.

Easy version uses a set of internal defaults for the sizing and positioning of the output file.

Renderstyles
The Renderstyle information is stored in a Renderstyle Library (.rsl) file.

The power of Cad Publisher is the ability to render the image with Renderstyles that have been created in the Renderstyles Library area and then assigning those Renderstyles to the layers in the Layers area of the settings file.

A renderstyle can be set up for monochrome, color and color separation output. It is not essential to set up for all of the outputs, it is just possible.

The settings (.set) file contains the Renderstyle names that act on the individual layers along with the sizing and positioning information.

Easy version uses a set of internal defaults for the rendering of the CAD file.

Viewing
All of the set up can be previewed in the Cad Publisher program, even composite separations,

Easy version has only:
CAD and color Views.