topic Re: Plot to PDF as images instead of vectors in AutoCAD LT Forum

Plot to PDF as images instead of vectors

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 05:33:32 GMT

Hi all,

I'm using AutoCAD LT 2014 and would like to create PDFs that are images (i.e. rasterized) instead of vectors. The reason is to provide protection against the PDFs being converted back to DWGs using software such as Able2Extract.

I read some other posts which mentioned MAPPLOTTRANSPARENCY (this command wasn't recognised by my AutoCAD) and PLOTTRANSPARENCYOVERRIDE (made no difference for me).

My current system is to use 'DWG to PDF.pc3' as the plotter. Then I open this vector PDF in another application (PDF-Viewer) and print that file as an image. This works but creates extra steps that I would like to avoid.

Cheers in advance.

Re: Plot to PDF as images instead of vectors

pendean — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 12:32:52 GMT

Your method is the best guarantee for what you want: by the way, you seem to not know that starting with LT2017 you can convert PDFs within the program. No need to buy any third party software, just upgrade.

Re: Plot to PDF as images instead of vectors

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 13:18:42 GMT

Cheers Dean. Might be time for an upgrade!

Re: Plot to PDF as images instead of vectors

pendean — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 16:20:50 GMT

In case you misunderstood, I meant PDF to DWG conversion is built into LT2017, not pdf-vector to pdf-raster conversion.

Re: Plot to PDF as images instead of vectors

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 02:54:01 GMT

Yep, understood