topic Re: Publish Selected Layouts only publishes 1 layout in Acad 2015 in AutoCAD Forum

Publish Selected Layouts only publishes 1 layout in Acad 2015

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 01:47:01 GMT

I had this happen a few years ago when i installed on a new computer.

Now it is happening again on this new computer.

I select "Select All Layouts" and then select "Publish Selected Layouts" and only 1 layout is in the publish window.

I remember it was an easy fix but I just don't remember what it was.

Autocad 2015 on Windows 10.

Thanks

Re: Publish Selected Layouts only publishes 1 layout in Acad 2015

ennujozlagam — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 02:42:46 GMT

Press and hold the Ctrl key.
Along the bottom of the drawing window, click each of the layout tabs that you want to publish.
Note: You can also select multiple layout tabs from the overflow menu.
Right-click one of the selected layout tabs and choose Publish Selected Layouts.
In the Publish dialog box, change any settings for the selected layouts and click Publish.

Re: Publish Selected Layouts only publishes 1 layout in Acad 2015

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 03:16:15 GMT

That is exactly what I have been doing for over 10 years but it doesn't
work now.
It will only show and plot 1 layout even though there is some to all
layouts selected.

Re: Publish Selected Layouts only publishes 1 layout in Acad 2015

ennujozlagam — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 03:55:11 GMT

Publishcollate = 1

Publish->publish to:->PDF

Publish->publish options->General DWF/PDF options->Type->Multi-sheet file

Re: Publish Selected Layouts only publishes 1 layout in Acad 2015

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 17:02:15 GMT

This did not work as the settings were already the same...
There is another variable PUBLISHALLSHEETS (0 or 1) neither made a
difference...

Re: Publish Selected Layouts only publishes 1 layout in Acad 2015

Valentin_CAD — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 23:48:09 GMT

@Anonymous ,

Try to PURGE, -PURGE, & AUDIT the file.
Check your Layout are all using DWG to PDF.pc3 preset.
PUBLISH from different location (Ex: Pulldown, Ribbon, Command Line... ect.)
If not already created, PUBLISH from the Sheet Set Manager.
Check if you get the same results when Exporting to PDF.
Driver may be corrupted, so create a new "DWG to PDF.pc3" driver in AutoCAD
Reset AutoCAD to default

Re: Publish Selected Layouts only publishes 1 layout in Acad 2015

RobDraw — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 11:57:31 GMT

Why not just use the publish command which automatically selects all layouts?

Re: Publish Selected Layouts only publishes 1 layout in Acad 2015

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 16:07:52 GMT

No difference trying that.... the drawings publish properly on the old machine...

Re: Publish Selected Layouts only publishes 1 layout in Acad 2015

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 16:09:23 GMT

That is a workaround but still should work the original way it was intended.

Re: Publish Selected Layouts only publishes 1 layout in Acad 2015

Valentin_CAD — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 17:22:15 GMT

@Anonymous ,

Did you try any of the suggestions in message 6? Particularly:

Driver may be corrupted, so create a new "DWG to PDF.pc3" driver in AutoCAD

Re: Publish Selected Layouts only publishes 1 layout in Acad 2015

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 18:04:51 GMT

Yes I did and tried other PDF output drivers as well...

Re: Publish Selected Layouts only publishes 1 layout in Acad 2015

RobDraw — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 09:41:32 GMT

I'm having trouble believing that using the command is a workaround. If anything, your preferred method is a workaround. SMH...

What happens if you select multiple layouts but not all?

Re: Publish Selected Layouts only publishes 1 layout in Acad 2015

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 01:12:33 GMT

Ha...well good point. but it should work the way it is intended to work.
I don't know when this feature was added but I have been using AutoCad
since the DOS version 2.0 (roughly 1984) so I believe that shortly after
it was rewritten for Windows this feature was added and I have been
doing it that way since then....:)

When you right click on the layout tabs and "Select All" then go to
"Publish Selected" there is only 1 layout in the list to print. The same
thing happens when I select a few of the layouts and the "Publish Selected".