So I have multiple drawings (over 100) that I would like to make into pdf's. I usually just use CTRL+P for single layouts and then use PUBLISH for a dwg with multiple layouts. Also use PUBLISH when I have multiple dwgs and want to make them into one pdf or I want to make multiple single sheet pdf's from all my drawings with only one layout. What I haven't seen is a way to use PUBLISH to make pdf's of multiple drawings of multiple drawings with more than one layout. I have to open up each drawing individually, PUBLISH, then close and open up then next drawing. Is there a way to PUBLISH multiple drawings but have each one be its own multipage PDF? Almost all these drawings are 2-3 pages and I'd like to figure out a way to PUBLISH all of them as their own 2-3 page PDF without having to do them individually.
Thank you.
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Give our JTB Batch Publish a try as it has more flexibility when it comes to publish to single and multi-page PDF files.
No problem, use this - Revers
Thanks, I'm just not prepared to pay for anything without knowing that it works first
Then there is one question only,
why do you say
"just not prepared to pay for anything without knowing that it works first"
instead of test revers?
7 days should be enough to know if it works or not.
Why not use publish and set it to plot one sheet per layout?
I tried testing it and don't see how to do what I need. If there is a way to do it and someone know how to do it with revers I would love to know as this is something I've been needing to do for a while.
I have multiple projects that I need to do this for on a fairly regular basis. For the one I'm working on right now there are about 60 drawings. Every so often I need to update something in the title block and need to reprint all the drawings. What I would like to do is publish all of them to pdf. My issue is that these drawings all have 2-3 and some even have 4 layouts. I would like to batch print them all but only have one pdf per drawing. So if my first drawing has 3 layout tabs I want that pdf to only have 3 pages, 2nd is 4 layouts so I only need that one to have the 4 pages. With PUBLISH I can either print all my drawings as one pdf or each layout tab as a single pdf.
I haven't seen how to do this with Revers. If it is possible with Revers I would love to see how I need to set it up in order to do this.
Thanks for your help.
As far as I know, Autocad doesn't have many extended features for printing. I also had the same problem as yours.
The way I do it is to use sheet set Manager to import all the layouts of the drawings I need and publish them in a single pdf file.
Then use a PDF editor (Acrobat Reader) to split them into sections (And be careful not to split the wrong number of pages).
Even with Sheet set manager: Page numbering is also a problem. As of now you can only enter it manually.
Please attach an example of your .dwg file
There is a video tutorial on the site, have you tried it?
Did you try our JTB Batch Publish app? Try it for free to see if it works for you.
I did check out the video but didn't see how to do what I am trying. I attached two examples. Each drawing has a COVER page. One has two layouts including the cover page and the other drawing has 3 layouts including the cover page. I had to remove info from the cover page and title block before attaching them here so thats why they look blank
Watch it
Watch the video in the previous post.