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Batch Plotting with Adobe PDF to Single Sheet PDFs

daniel.welchLFHPQ — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:29:32 GMT

I'd like to batch plot my sheet list with the plotter named in page setup (in my case Adobe PDF Converter) and I want to plot them as single sheet pdfs. However, whenever I choose publish to "plotter named in page setup" I loose the option to check or uncheck the multi-sheet file under "Publish Options..." and it seems to default to a multi-sheet pdf.

Does anyone no how to plot to single-sheet pdfs with the Adobe PDF Converter plotter?

Re: Batch Plotting with Adobe PDF to Single Sheet PDFs

paullimapa — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:59:37 GMT

Since you're not using one of the built-in pdf drivers from AutoCAD there may not be a control available on this 3rd party printer. Any reason for now using the built-in ones like DWG to PDF.pc3?

Re: Batch Plotting with Adobe PDF to Single Sheet PDFs

daniel.welchLFHPQ — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 19:22:25 GMT

If you use one of the built in ones then when you view it with Adobe's default rendering settings (smooth line art) it looks bad. We have a client that doesn't want to change their Adobe settings.

Re: Batch Plotting with Adobe PDF to Single Sheet PDFs

cadffm — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 21:39:56 GMT

Hi,

greyed out means: Not available!

So it use single page ONLY.

And this is what you want..

Q: Does it create one PDF with multi pages, or multiple one page PDFs?

Re: Batch Plotting with Adobe PDF to Single Sheet PDFs

daniel.welchLFHPQ — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 21:46:18 GMT

The greyed out "Single-Sheet File" only says that because that's what I had it set to the last time I had the plotter override set to PDF and was able to adjust that setting. If I had multi-sheet file selected before switching to "use plotter in page setup" then the greyed out portion would say multi-sheet file.

No matter what the greyed out area says it still plots a single pdf with multiple sheets.

Re: Batch Plotting with Adobe PDF to Single Sheet PDFs

cadffm — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 22:09:09 GMT

ahh,

for usual peoples having the opposite problem.

In your case, it creates one Multipage-PDF now, okay. That's uncommon and not under controle of AutoCAD.

It sounds the Adobe PDF Converter is set up to collect / Autospool multiple printjobs to create one multifile PDF.

I will run a quick search for you, because I am not familiar with this 'Adobe PDF Converter ', IF I find some informations, I will post again.

But if you don'T want to change the setting, I don't know how to change that

Re: Batch Plotting with Adobe PDF to Single Sheet PDFs

pendean — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 22:10:20 GMT

@daniel.welchLFHPQ wrote:

...No matter what the greyed out area says it still plots a single pdf with multiple sheets.

This choice of yours means AutoCAD will never ever give you control to do anything like that: only your chosen driver settings can do what you want (if it can, looks like you opted for one that does not perhaps)

Re: Batch Plotting with Adobe PDF to Single Sheet PDFs

daniel.welchLFHPQ — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:52:46 GMT

I found a way to achieve the result I was looking for.

By changing the PUBLISHCOLLATE system variable to zero it prints each sheet as a separate print job thus creating multiple pdfs with a single sheet.

https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACDLT/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-2369EDF8-FC5E-4DB9-8DBA-E1997C31BDED

Thank you for your help