Plotting to Adobe PDF.

[Anonymous]

Is there a way, to do a project plot, when plotting to Adobe PDF, to keep from having to sit in front of my computer and telling Adobe where to save the file on every drawing? This is very time consuming, and I think it should be able to do a project plot, the same way it works when I send it to a plotter.

[Anonymous]

In Acad2010 it is a publish option to go directly to a multisheet .pdf
For previous versions, I published to a multisheet .dwf and then use the plot command in Design Review to convert to a multisheet .pdf
I don't think there is an easy way around it if you need individual .pdf's

[Anonymous]

If you want to save each to an individual PDF file, you can use the 'Plot
Project' option to do this.

On the 'Batch Plotting Options and Order' dialog, select the 'Acade - DWG To
PDF.pc3' plot configuration files for Acade 2010 (select 'DWG To PDF.pc3'
for previous versions) and toggle on the 'Yes: plot to=' option in the 'Plot
to file' section. Don't give any file name in the 'Plot to file' section
and this will cause the files to get named '{drawingname}.plt.pdf'.

I did this in Acade 2010 and it worked fine and I am pretty sure this worked
in previous versions also, just had to use the correct plot configuration
file (I don't have a previous version to try this on).

Steve

"sgtjre21r" wrote in message news:6277984@discussion.autodesk.com...
Is there a way, to do a project plot, when plotting to Adobe PDF, to keep
from having to sit in front of my computer and telling Adobe where to save
the file on every drawing? This is very time consuming, and I think it
should be able to do a project plot, the same way it works when I send it to
a plotter.

[ricardo_baez]

Hi sgtjre21r,

You need to create a pc3 file or configure the Adobe PDF plotter driver to take care of your PDF plotting needs. This is the way I have been doing it since Acade 2004 and now with 2010 I can do the multi-sheet plot to pdf output to a single file.

Attached is a working pc3 file that you can try.




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> Is there a way, to do a project plot, when plotting to Adobe PDF, to keep from having to sit in front of my computer and telling Adobe where to save the file on every drawing? This is very time consuming, and I think it should be able to do a project plot, the same way it works when I send it to a plotter.