Newsgroup Questions: DWF files with Tiff Images

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Autodesk Design Review
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Recently Autodesk Design Review discussion group member jkj297 (I believe his father is jkj296.) posed the question:

I am looking for information on how to print a .tiff image to scale. I am a new user and am wondering if it is possible to print a .tiff image to a specific scale or does it need to be converted first? What procedure is best to follow?

Autodesk Software Developer, Manjiri Nanivadekar, provided some additional information:

You can import a tiff into Autodesk Design Review by dragging and dropping into the canvas pane. Then open the print dialog, and set the scale to 100. This should print the actual tiff size. Note that if your tiff did not specify DPI or DPCM, your locale will determine the import unit.

User jkj297 then had a follow-up question:

If i use the "tools"..."unit of scale" option and set the scale to the same scale that the drawing was created at (i.e.,: 1:200) and then try to measure a known distance, Autodesk Design Review does not give me the correct result.

User SaxyWolf provided an answer:

Autodesk Design Review automatically scales the image to 1 unit is 1 inch. This is defined by what DPI (Dots Per Inch or pixels per inch) the tiff image was saved. If the drawing scale was 1"=200'...

Method 1, with a display of units:

1. Tools->Units and Scale
2. Set 'Drawing Units' to Inches.
3. Set 'Display Units' to Feet. Set 'Scale' to 1" = 200'

Method 2, The same effect but without units:

1. Tools->Units and Scale
2. Set 'Scale' to 1:200

If you are getting distances that are 12x what you want:

• Method 1: check to see that you set 'Drawing Units' to Inches.
• Method 2: check to see that you used 1:200 and not 1"=200'.

This level of information sharing from peer to peer, including Autodesk employees and non-Autodesk employees, is exactly what the discussion groups are intended for. Way to go people!