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Anonymous
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Print/Export model in dxf to pdf with custom margin?

Hi,

 

This is connected to my old problem. I was not able to implement the suggested solution in the old thread, so I now try a new way. That is I use Adobe (Reader or Illustrator) to tile the complete file into different A0. This works, I sent it to a virtual printer and get a pdf file with 8 A0 pages (in my old thread I mentioned A4, but I now found a copyshop where I can do it in A0, so I have to have A0 at the end.)

 

This way works, however there is a big problem: In Adobe I cannot adjust the margin. The margin options cannot be set by adobe, they are somehow fixed. They are created when the pdf is created.

 

Therefore I now want to create a large pdf file from my dxf file with a specific margin (no need for tile or so, this comes later with adobe as I said). So I want to have my lines in a large pdf file where I can manually set the margin options.

I tried to figure it out and I saw that there is an option to use custom pages and there set the margins manually. However this does not work, since I am simply not used to Autocad.

 

I have now two problems:

 

I open my dxf file. First problem is that always a blank page is printed. Somehow my model is not in the right layout. So I have to somehow move my model to the print layout. I also googled viewports but could not figure it out.

 

I just tried to print it, so open my dxf file and click on the A symbol and click on print:

 

Print1.JPG

 

The result is an empty pdf, it does not contain my lines model?

 

Second how can I export it to a pdf (I think I have to use the dwg to pdf.pc3 plotter) with manual set margins - lets say 1cm top bottom right and left? I tried to use the settings of the dwg to pdf.pc3 plotter and define a custom page size with custom margin - but it does not work. (Also the final page size should be large enough that everything fits into. So my model is almos 2,5m times 2m. In a large pdf with that size everything should fit in. Would be good if this is somehow automatically done, because I have also other line models which have a different size. But I am also fine with manually entering it, although I do not know how to find out the size in autocad, but I can do it in Illustrator. But this is of course extra work.)