Hello, it's been a while, but I just found this thread and it is a subject I'm interested in. I have been using the Publish Option.xml file to try and control the publishing. It's just not giving me what I want. My next move was to set that usepagesetup, or whatever it was, and set it to true. Problem is, I have many drawings to publish and I'm not the originator of the drawings. Therefore, I don't know what, if any, the page settings are per drawings.
So, I see the setup.dwg solution you posted. I'm assuming the setup.dwg is some sort of common setting that are used to publish right? So, whatever I set the page setup manager to in that drawing will globally affect all drawings published?
If so, how do I alter the Publish Options.xml? It seems you either used the drawing being published page settings or the XML file. How does it know to use setup.dwg settings? Also, what is the ACE_setup.dwg?