Image in Title Block problem

[ron.sanpedro]

I am trying to create a 30X40 presentation board title block, and having problems inserting our logo. I have converted the image to a BMP (grrrr! PNG anyone?) and when I try to insert, nothing happens. No explanation, just no image. I also tried a drag n drop from my desktop. Same thing, no explanation, no image. I checked in the Raster images dialog, just to make sure I wasn't inserting images someplace I couldn't see. FWIW, I tried tweaking the image. It is 300dpi and 3"X1.5", so its not like the image is bigger than the sheet. I also converted the image to a JPG, and that comes in fine, just useless due to the lossy nature of JPG. This is a black & white logo with text, and the quality of a JPG is just not going to pass muster.

Anyone have any thoughts on why the BMP won't work?

Thanks,
Gordon

[DanielleAnderson]

I've had this problem before, and I'm not sure what the answer is, because I agree on the inferior quality of jpgs in the titleblock (especially when you print to PDF). I have had the most success using logos that were created in autocad, or else, if you have the time and patience, to trace the logo with actual revit lines in an annotation family, and then insert it into the titleblock as a symbol.
I would love to know the answer to the bmp question as well.

[Overconstrained]

Sorry, I can't help unfortunately. I've always had good quality results with JPG's.

I think if you convert a BMP to a JPG you might end up with image quality issues though. Any chance of actually creating your logo as a JPG instead of coverting it from BMP?

[ron.sanpedro]

Sorry, I can't help unfortunately. I've always had good quality results with JPG's.

I think if you convert a BMP to a JPG you might end up with image quality issues though. Any chance of actually creating your logo as a JPG instead of coverting it from BMP?

The problem is JPG is a lossy format. You just can't help but have artifacts when your logo is simple black and white text and such. Somehow I think it is the BMP coming out of Photshop that is the problem. In any case, Revit desperately needs to support PNG. It is a great format for linework, which is a lot of what we bring into Revit files, it is public domain, it is a standard, it just works. Even BMP is a kludge by comparison, and JPG was always intended as a photo format. GIF was the linework format, but CompuServe tried to get everyone to pay to use GIF, so PNG was invented as a replacement.

I will be trying a Windows Paint saved BMP tomorrow and see what happens. Failing that I will try a very low compression JPG.

Best,
Gordon

[U.Rackharrow]

Use uncompressed .tif images NOT .jpgs