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Hi Joseph,

I'm pretty sure we haven't changed anything relating to fretboard copy or even the exporting nitty-gritty in the 1.11.x releases so I'm a bit surprised about the issue.

I can try out...

Wanted to quickly update this thread as I've just found another great FREE solution, at least for Mac users ;)

It turns out that Preview in Mavericks (Mac OS X 10.9) allows export from PDF with...

Not strictly true Caglayan ;) You can copy/paste at the screen resolution. Do word processors like Word or Pages cope with hi-dpi images? I've always found that if not set to 100% scaling those kinds...

Yes, Neck Diagrams exports PDFs with vectors so fretboards/text will scale perfectly! But images added to pages stay as rasters because they can't be vectorised, just like you say :)

Oh wow - FANTASTIC tip! Just tried this out and works a treat. Here's the sort of thing you get:


http://www.neckdiagrams.com/forums-imgs/preview-export-dpi.png

I always prefer to use PNG over...

Thanks for the tip! How big is the file? Will it fit if you zip it? Or save it as a PNG?
Maybe I can increase the size limit - would be good to have an example here.
Will try out your steps myself...

Mark Stefani (of Vision Music) just pointed out a really neat & simple solution for anyone using Photoshop!

I wasn't aware Photoshop had any PDF support, but it can open PDFs. Mark exported a page...

Won't be in 1.9 unfortunately Daven! Maybe after that though, perhaps December with any luck, or more likely January.

Once this feature is ready I could maybe give you early access to a...

PDF is probably best at the moment.

Just remembered though that there is a kind of "workaround" to get large images! This'll work for new diagrams, but if you've got loads of them already though...

For image type exports (PNG, JPEG) the resolution is as you see it on the screen. It maps to 72 DPI (which is what the operating system uses to represent the screen), so the actual resolution will...