Does anyone know if the Adobe PDFMaker plug-in works the same way as Plot to PDF? Meaning will the PDF be to the correct Plot Style or will it just convert the DWG to a Vector file like in Adobe Illustrator.
The reason for this question is I am trying to plot heavy autocad files into compressed PDFs with a small MB size. Would the Adobe PDFMaker plug-in or any other program compress these files and/or remove the layers in the PDF file to flatten them into smaller managable PDFs?
Any cheap freeware PDF printer driver will create small PDFs with no layers and no additional information. You don't need to buy anything else.
If you want Vector PDFs, the built-in PDF drivers in AutoCAD are your next free option: you can turn off layers/notations and other features off in the respective PC3 files.
BlueBeam and Acroplot sell PDF drivers that are truly and properly designed for AutoCAD, if you must purchase a third party solution instead.
However, do these programs allow you to create PDFs with the correct line weight according to a plot style or does it just create a PDF from a DWG file.
Line weights are determined by your plot style table settings (CTB or STB) all the time regardless of output source (paper, PDF, DWF or anything else).
Just make sure your PDF viewer is not the display culprit.
