Publish using Extents Plots Only Bottom Corner

[sfretwel]

What is going on?

Given these dialogues (Page Setup Manager | Page Setup Specifics | Publish) :

I would expect everything is in order to publish my 3 pages centered to 24x36" paper. Paperspace looks great, plotting individually looks great, previews look great, even the Publish thumbnails look great.

Plot Preview

Plot of a single page

Publish of all three pages w/ metadata.

I'm at a loss for what's going wrong with Publish.

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If you would like the file, let me know and I can DM it to you. It's relatively complex, could this be a memory issue?

Disregard "Plot Transparency" being off. This is me attempting to circumvent a different issue (the yellow is a solid hatch on a transparent layer, but plots a massive raster instead of vector w/ plot transparency on)

This is after a fresh-repair of AutoCAD 2021.

Changing scale to "Fit to paper" makes publish plot a little more:

[ChicagoLooper]

Is your modelspace using metric? If you are, then you are drawing in metric but you are trying to print to imperial. You can tell you want imperial output becuase your plot window indicates W36" X H24" paper.  In actuality, your sheet is NOT sized to 36" X 34", it's sized to 36mm X 24mm.

Drawing in metric and printing to imperial is what us Yankees do, we print to imperial because we still stubbornly cling the 'King's foot' and haven't switched to (or switched back to) the metric system like the rest of the world.  You can still do what you want, draw in metric in modelspace and plot to imperial, but you'll have to use plot settings that use a (A) conversion from metric-to-imperial and (B) do it in a way that AutoCAD understands. Do just A and you fail. Do just B and you fail. You need to do BOTH!

Try this:

1. In paperspace draw a rectangle exactly 36 wide and 24 tall and when asked to specify first corner point, don't click with your mouse, enter 0,0 on command line instead. It's OK if your rectangle isn't centered over your sheet and it's also OK if your rectangle looks too small. (Your rectangle is really 36mm wide and 24mm tall.) Draw this rectangle on a non-plotting layer such as your viewport layer or any other non-plotting layer.
2. Scale your rectangle using 25.4 (the mm to inch conversion factor) so your rectangle becomes larger. Use the bottom left corner of the rectangle as the basepoint. It's perfectly OK if your rectangle isn't nicely centered over your sheet. You'll center it later.
3. Go to PLOT command and change What to plot from Extents to Window. At this point you are being asked to 'define' your window. Back in paperspace, click your rectangle at the top left corner and the bottom right corner to define your window. Back in the PLOT command check the box labled Center the plot=>Apply button=>CANCEL button (you cancel because you're not plotting--you're still in setup stage). Your sheet will be centered perfectly inside your rectangle.
4. You're not done yet, you still have one more thing to do. Start the PLOT command. In the Plot Scale section go to SCALE and make it 1 inches = 25.4 units. Click Apply to Layout and the scale description will indicate 'Custom.' See image below. Click Preview button.

If you frequently draw in metric and plot to imperial, you should consider adding these settings to your 'metric' template so these settings will be readily available whenever you start your drawing using your metric template. Do NOT combine these settings with an imperial drawing, they only apply to metric drawings.