Try HiJaak Pro or TracTrix 2000 these are both vector-to-raster/raster-to-vector conversion programs. I believe one of them supports PDF format conversion. Jeffrey A McGlaughlin, CID Engineering Designer Battelle Memorial Institute Columbus Ohio http://www.battelle.org [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mcmaster, Michael Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 3:51 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] Cad to PDF and back again I have a semi-technical, slightly off-topic question for the group. We build boards with heat sinks and pallets attached to them. This involves the transfer of CAD files and drawings between us, our customers and our suppliers. I've run into a situation where we are getting PDF drawings generated from the original customer-created CAD file. The PDFs need to have some slight edits made to them (addition of our part number, etc.) before we send them to the machine shop. I thought everything was working fine until recently. I was using Acrobat 5.0.5 to make the edits to the original PDFs. Unknowingly the edits I was making were only markups not true edits. Viewed on my computer screen or printed out with Acrobat Reader 5, everything was OK. But I recently upgraded to Acrobat Reader 6 and found that it doesn't print markups unless you specifically request it as a print option. The Markups do show up on screen, but not on paper. So my supplier who uses Acrobat Reader 6 (or 7) doesn't see my edits when they print it out. I was never very happy with Acrobat to begin with (it seems to be nothing more than electronic white-out). Now I am even less so. Ideally, I take the PDF files back in to CAD to make the edits, the re-convert the output into PDF? Does anybody have a good recommendation for converting between CAD and PDF files and back again? I am using KeyCreator (which used to be CADKey) but have the ability to output in almost all CAD formats. Feel free to reply off-line. Thanks in advance. --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------