autocad DSD file contains settings that conflict with PUBLISH Options

[Sylvino]

Hello,

I have a drawing that instead of having multiple layout tabs, it's got 5 different "sheets" on the same layout tab. I normally print these out with the "Adobe PDF" plotter and they turn out great. 

I'm trying to get it to batch plot under publish which I have mostly figured out. However the "Adobe PDF" plotter isn't available when using the "PUBLISH" command. When I try using any of the other PDF drivers, my drawing does not print out properly (mostly OLE Objects are blurred"

If I choose the option  to publish to "Plotter named in page setup" it prints out fine, but when I have 5 different PDF's I need to combine - which will be a hassle as I have hundreds of these drawings to plot..

I'm not sure if this would be a hint to what is going on but when I load my pre-made sheet list I get the following error:

So basically:

I'm trying to batch plot multiple sheet views, but in doing so I cannot choose the "Adobe PDF" plotter which causes my drawing to not print like they should.

If I just use the "plotter named in page setup" option they print out fine, but it ends up plotting multiple PDFS as the "publish options" is not available when choosing that option therefore I cannot use the "multi-sheet file" toggle.

Is there a way to add the Adobe PDF plotter to the "publish to" when using "PUBLISH" or is there a way to plot all sheets to 1 PDF file when using the "plotter named in page setup"?

Thank you kindly for your time,

Sylvain

[ The subject line of this post has been edited for clarity by @pendean Original: Adobe PDF not available as a plot driver when using publish ]

[pendean]

Appears to be how someone at your end opted to create the DSD file https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/AutoCA...

EDIT: "adobe pdf" shows up when you migrate from an old version of AutoCAD into your current one: did you migrate from R2017 by chance?

Can you create a new DSD file to test?

Also I see you are using OneDrive for file access and storage, hope that is not a contributing factor to it as well.

[dmfrazier]

For all of the page setups named Sheet1, Sheet2, etc., what is the "plotter named in the page setup"?

Whatever "plotter" this is (maybe Adobe PDF?), can it be configured to plot each sheet individually instead of all in one multi-sheet PDF?

In case that doesn't lead to a solution, how about trying this:

In Publish, temporarily select PDF in the "Publish to" drop-down. Then set the Publish options as you would like them.

Then, change the "Publish to" drop-down back to "plotter named in the page setup". Do the Publish options then change or stay the way you want them?