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Image size conversion problem

This Conversion warning may appear when opening a PlotMaker Layout Book in ArchiCAD 10. It usually displays the following message:

Image Size conversion problem. (1 drawing)
When you place or update an image in ArchiCAD or PlotMaker (version 3.1 or later), the program uses the resolution information stored in the original image file. This layout book contains images which were placed or last updated with PlotMaker 3.0. The size of these images might change when you update them. To avoid this problem, we suggest that you open the .lbk file with PlotMaker 3.1 (or later version) and update the listed drawings. Or you can update the drawings in ArchiCAD and check/reset the drawing size.

The problem occurred with this drawing:
Sky_storm1_photo.jpg

This warning can happen when you open in ArchiCAD 10 a Layout Book that was created in PlotMaker 3 (the version that came with ArchiCAD 8 – this was the first version to used Layout Books instead of single Layouts), and that Layout Book had Layouts in it onto which image files were imported.

PlotMaker versions up to version 3 handled drawing resolution information differently from the way subsequent versions did, and this is why this warning comes up.

The easiest solution is to simply open in PlotMaker 9 (or PlotMaker 3.1) the Layout Book in question, and just save it. When it is saved, image resolution information will then be handled the way ArchiCAD 10 handles it, and no image size change should be expected.

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