Batch Plotting with Adobe PDF to Single Sheet PDFs

[daniel.welchLFHPQ]

I'd like to batch plot my sheet list with the plotter named in page setup (in my case Adobe PDF Converter) and I want to plot them as single sheet pdfs.  However, whenever I choose publish to "plotter named in page setup" I loose the option to check or uncheck the multi-sheet file under "Publish Options..." and it seems to default to a multi-sheet pdf. 

Does anyone no how to plot to single-sheet pdfs with the Adobe PDF Converter plotter?

 

[paullimapa]

Since you're not using one of the built-in pdf drivers from AutoCAD there may not be a control available on this 3rd party printer. Any reason for now using the built-in ones like DWG to PDF.pc3?

[daniel.welchLFHPQ]

If you use one of the built in ones then when you view it with Adobe's default rendering settings (smooth line art) it looks bad.  We have a client that doesn't want to change their Adobe settings.

[cadffm]

Hi,

greyed out means: Not available!

So it use single page ONLY. 

And this is what you want..

Q: Does it create one PDF with multi pages, or multiple one page PDFs?

[daniel.welchLFHPQ]

The greyed out "Single-Sheet File" only says that because that's what I had it set to the last time I had the plotter override set to PDF and was able to adjust that setting.  If I had multi-sheet file selected before switching to "use plotter in page setup" then the greyed out portion would say multi-sheet file.

No matter what the greyed out area says it still plots a single pdf with multiple sheets.

[cadffm]

ahh,

for usual peoples having the opposite problem.

In your case, it creates one Multipage-PDF now, okay. That's uncommon and not under controle of AutoCAD.

It sounds the Adobe PDF Converter  is set up to collect / Autospool multiple printjobs to create one multifile PDF.

I will run a quick search for you, because I am not familiar with this 'Adobe PDF Converter ', IF I  find some informations, I will post again.

But if you don'T want to change the setting, I don't know how to change that

[pendean]

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@daniel.welchLFHPQ wrote:

...No matter what the greyed out area says it still plots a single pdf with multiple sheets.

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This choice of yours means AutoCAD will never ever give you control to do anything like that: only your chosen driver settings can do what you want (if it can, looks like you opted for one that does not perhaps)

[daniel.welchLFHPQ · Accepted solution]

I found a way to achieve the result I was looking for.

By changing the PUBLISHCOLLATE system variable to zero it prints each sheet as a separate print job thus creating multiple pdfs with a single sheet.

https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACDLT/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-2369EDF8-FC5E-4DB9-8DBA-E1997C31BDED

Thank you for your help