DWF Composer lets you drop out one DWF and insert another. But that is a
manual operation. When we build software, we have an automated process that
builds the entire product. I may have only changed one line of code in one
software module, but we number and build the whole product. Yes I could just
build the changed module by hand, but we'd rather have a consistent process
than go for speed. The build process runs unattended, so we let the machines
work for us. Single DWFs offer the benefit of displaying each file's
version. As far as admin costs go, if you could automate out some of that.
In terms of printing only what has changed, that would require some other
process where you add some type of manifest to the beginning of the DWF that
identifies the version of each sheet therein.
"Chad" wrote in message
news:40b28528_1@newsprd01...
> Thanks for your comments Scott.
>
> The problems with Multi-page DWF's is that if only 1 drawing was revised
you
> have to recreate the entire DWF file again, and if you have 20-30 drawings
> per project that could take a while.
> The other problem is that you might only want to send a couple of drawings
> to a particular recipient. Single DWF files offer flexibility and lower
> admin costs.
>
> Yes, there are benefits of a Multi-page DWF file but there are benefits
for
> singular DWF files too.
>
> "Scott Sheppard" wrote in message
> news:40b27bc3$1_1@newsprd01...
> > The cool thing about a multi-page DWF is that it is like an issue. You
can
> > have everything in the one file, load it up in the DWF viewer, click
> print,
> > ensure that "print all sheets" is checked, and you are done. This might
> not
> > be the way you work today, but it's the way I'd work tomorrow.
> >
> > "Chad" wrote in message
> > news:40b27724_1@newsprd01...
> > > >>> I think Autodesk is moving in the direction of going paperless
using
> > DWF
> > > instead.<<<
> > >
> > > Unfortunately while our drawing office (like a lot of other drawing
> > offices
> > > around the world) are going paperless, we still have over half of our
> > > clients and contractors that still require paper.
> > > Our office drawing registrar is in charge of sending out sets of
> drawings
> > to
> > > these people, and he is the main person that needs to be able to batch
> > plot
> > > the DWF's from the viewer.
> > > Other people in the office that require this are the sales, management
> and
> > > site managers.
> > >
> >
> >
>
>