topic Re: Application manager / Plotter manager in AutoCAD for Mac Forum

Application manager / Plotter manager

philipj! — Mon, 08 May 2017 11:06:52 GMT

I cannot find the application manager or the plotter manager on my Autocad LT 2017 software. I'm told that I can access the Application Manager by clicking the red "A" icon in the upper right of the work space. However this icon does not exist. Typing in "PLOTTERMANAGER" in the command line does not have any effect. Basically I'm wanting to add and extra plotter style for printing to PDF as currently I get an "DWG To PDF A3.pc3: The printer in this configuration cannot be found" error. If there is no application manager or plotter manager how do I solve this problem?

Re: Application manager / Plotter manager

maxim_k — Mon, 08 May 2017 11:22:47 GMT

Welcome to Autodesk Forums!

Hi Philip,

In AutoCAD for Mac printing process is different than in AutoCAD for Windows as this is OS dependent feature.
There is no Plotter Manager in AutoCAD for Mac, you need to edit current page setup in Page Setup Manager (menu File -> Page Setup Manager) to change printing device saved with current page setup to some of the printers (plotters) available on your Mac and get rid of the alert you mentioned.

You can also try to use Batch publish feature to save to PDF, it should work with Page Setups created on other machines (even on PC) without problems, just select "Publish to PDF" and one of the predefined presets in "Publish output" section of Batch Publish window.

Maxim

Re: Application manager / Plotter manager

philipj! — Wed, 10 May 2017 11:50:14 GMT

Thanks Maxim, have now got this working OK