Print vs. Publish in Autocad LT for Mac

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

I'm setting up all sort of standards for my new office, and we use Autocad LT 2016 for Mac.

So far everything worked fine: Title Blocks, Annotative Blocks, SheetSet, etc. The one thing that is giving me a big headache is Publishing from SheetSet vs. Printing single Layouts.

This is what I have:

- A3 and A4 Title blocks, with origin in 0,0 and saved as .dwt

- A3 and A4 Page Setups, saved in the same .dwt file, with: Layout (no Extents or Window); scale 1:1; Offset 0,0. I usually import the Page Setups in the new drawing.

- I have the office printer selected, Borderless A4 and A3, but then print to pdf

- I select the proper PageSetup for each layout when calling Publish

When I print a single layout manually the print is perfectly centred within the frame, but when I Publish a whole set from the SheetSet or a group using the same settings the frame and title blocks are cut, the print is not centred and the paper size ignored (I have A3 and A4 in the same SheetSet, it applies A3 by default to all).

I'm having a hard time convincing my colleagues to use the SheetSet Manager, printing at once is the one thing that intrigued them, and it's not working!

What am I doing wrong? In a few forums I read there might be a bug, is that it?

Thank you, Veronica

[maxim_k]

Welcome to Autodesk Forums!

Hi Veronica,

Do you use single PDF as destination for publish job?
I know about the defect (bug) in AutoCAD for Mac which prevents from using multiple paper size and orientation when you publish to single PDF file multiple sheets with different paper sizes - it outputs all sheets to the page size and orientation defined in the first layout in the sheet set.
You can batch publish to individual PDF files from Batch publish dialog - than output will be correct.
You can assemble individual sheets together later with Preview app, if you need single PDF.

Maxim

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Thanks Maxim,

I had also found a post about that bug, and made a test, but it's not the problem.

Then accidentally I tried yesterday something new, instead of using the default A3 paper size from the printer I created a custom paper size with the same dimensions (A3 and A4 borderless) and then it worked! I guess it's an issue related to the system printer.

Have a nice day,

Veronica