converting an ACAD .dwg file to TIFF or EPS formats

Ask your friends which "flavor" of AutoCAD they have. They may be able to help. Too, you might be able to change the resolution if you can do an image Save As (I am not an AutoCAD expert, I use other software) so this might not be an available option.

As for the EPS image, what you may see is a "postage-stamp" image, with the "real image" available as a PDF, if you print the final document with the correct resolution. BTW, the resulting file sizes may be on the order of megabytes, so email submission may be an issue.

Having worked in publishing, documentation, and CAD there may be many options that you are unaware of. Most of these options are buried and may take a few steps. There are many reasons why a good publisher is expensive.

I recently had some printing done to "ticket-size" media, which also had to be submitted in .eps format (sorta-kinda-like .wps format, in that it is capable of retaining vector info). Part of the info was a portion of a street-map, which I did in AutoCadLT. No matter what I did, I also couldn't get the file to translate from CAD to .eps while successfully retaining the vector info.

But; since overall resolution was the necessity, I simply "maximized" the CAD drawing by doing "View", "Zoom", "Extents"... then did a "Print Screen" capture to the clipboard; "Pasted" into Paint Shop Pro... cropped what was needed and "Saved As" an .eps file. Vector info not present, but the printer's artwork guy said that he could work with it no-problemo.

Try it and ask if the Journal artists can make it work ~(?) Best-of-Luck.

this should be easy

type render, then set it to render to a file, set the file type to tiff, and set your resolution, then do the rendering and set your file name and location.

I tried 'render' option as suggested by Craigsat. But resultant TIFF file shows just a grid of dots (instead of drawing)!

Another possibility is a screen capture utility (I use MWSnap). It will capture an area, a window, or the whole screen and convert it to jpg, bmp, etc.

One problem with it is that very thin lines sometimes are difficult to capture. If you capture a small area and try to enlarge it, you will loose some lines.

It's still a good utility to have. There are several availabe as free downloads, so why not try it?

pulishish it first, then save as jpeng, after that conver it to tiff...that is all,let me know you successs

You may use 'pdf creator' is a free program that allows you to print as a normal printer in different formats also in tiff.

Regards NIK