I am viewing seismic profiles on Petrel, but I would like to be able to interpret them whenever on a drawing software on my tablet. Is there a way to export segy as a jpg, tif or pdf?
Printing high-resolution seismic files directly from Petrel requires more than just default settings. The choices you have for saving as EMF are limited to an export (Petrel -> File -> Export Graphics -> EMF), whereas saving as PDF and CGM are done from the Print dialog.
Saving as EMF
Seismic generated from Petrel and saved as EMF does not offer any controls of raster sizes. The seismic has in the conversion become a low-resolution raster and when zooming in the file you will see very pixelated seismic. Conclusion: Saving a seismic file as EMF was a bad choice if you need to zoom in or print afterward, as you will only get a low-resolution raster file covering the seismic part of the vector EMF file.
Saving as CGM
To get a reasonable output from Petrel you will need to save the seismic file as CGM. However, the process needs a little explanation as you will have to go through a number of steps.
You will not be able to save or print from Petrel before you have defined page size. You will need to set a large canvas in Petrel. But you will still need to set the size when printing!
In the system's settings, Troubleshooting you will find that the Limit seismic bitmaps output to printers/metafiles is toggled on and set to 1000 pixels. If you toggle this off you may only see the frame printed! To change the number of pixels to something large i.e. 10000 pixels.
On the other hand, you can try:
Import/Export Seismic Data
Import Seismic Data
Seismic data is stored under a specific Seismic Survey folder. You can have multiple and rename Seismic Survey folders. How to import seismic data:
See also how to import.
Export Seismic Data
How to export seismic data:
Best regards, Mario E. Sigismondi
YES from Petrel we can export as EMF file and the image can be hight quality or processed under Illustrator giving hight resolution.
You can simply use the camera tool on the interpretation window. Once it is clicked, the image is saved as JPEG on your clipboard and can be pasted directly into PPT. You have the option of switching to EMF at this place. And recent versions of Petrel allows you to directly save to PPT in any window.
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