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Autocad 2017 ignores the units when importing pdf
Hi,
I'm fairly new to Autocad as I usually work with Microstation.
The problem we have now is that we have a drawing (units in mm) with a frame in the model that is 297 mm high.
We also have a pdf that is 297 mm high.
When checking the size of the pdf in Adobe it's all good. BUT, when using the commando pdfimport in Autocad, we find that the main unit for the pdf in fact is inches. (The pdf comes from a customer and has been through a looong process to get approved. So creating a new pdf isn't an option.)
When importing sw "tell" the pdfimport that it should be in 1:1 scale. Nothing fancy.
But the imported pdf does not become the same size as the frame. What it looks like is that the pdfimport ignores that there's a difference in units and just import the pdf with the size it has in numbers. In this case it gets the height of 49.86 inches which is 297 mm.
The result being a pdf that is 49.86 mm high.
Does anyone now a workaround for this? Scaling the pdf by 25.4 is not an option!
I would like for Autocad to read the units and thereby see that 49.86 inches actually is 297 mm.
Please help. My first batch contains 129 pdf's.
Sincerely
Thomas
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I seem to get the desired result. Altough I may have different AutoCAD settings and page sizes.
CAD files for printing the PDF and PDFIMPORT are both metric - mm.
My steps:
I created a PDF from a metric drawing size A4 201mm x 297mm.
My newly created PDF shows a page size of 8.26 in. x 11.69 in. - in Adobe. (BTW - 11.69 inches is 297mm).
PDFIMPORT - at 1:1, title block dimensions are correct. Approx. 180mm x 250mm - for the linework. There is no box for the exact paper size - just title block entities that are smaller than the paper size (margins).
could you post the PDF?
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Hi,
>> When checking the size of the pdf in Adobe it's all good
Just a guess ... when you use Adobe on an English version of Windows, it will not report the size of the PDF as 297mm, it will report 11.7inch, doesn't it?
>> In this case it gets the height of 49.86 inches which is 297 mm.
Sorry, 49.86inch is not equal to 297mm.
49.86inch = 1266mm
>> My first batch contains 129 pdf's
How do you run the batch? Which tool do you use to do that and why can't that scale the imported PDF-page?
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Alfred NESWADBA
ISH-Solutions GmbH / Ingenieur Studio HOLLAUS
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@Alfred.NESWADBAwrote:Hi,
>> When checking the size of the pdf in Adobe it's all good
Just a guess ... when you use Adobe on an English version of Windows, it will not report the size of the PDF as 297mm, it will report 11.7inch, doesn't it?
In Edit/Preferences you can set the Units under Units/Guides. Under Pages Display you can then set Always show doc page size. Then the actual size of the pdf is shown in the bottom left corner.
>> In this case it gets the height of 49.86 inches which is 297 mm.
Sorry, 49.86inch is not equal to 297mm.
49.86inch = 1266mm
Correct, my bad! It's 11.71 inch
>> My first batch contains 129 pdf's
How do you run the batch? Which tool do you use to do that and why can't that scale the imported PDF-page?
Maybe written unclear. I have a workload of 129 drawings that has to get the pdf exchanged for a new version.
Every drawing will be opened separately in order to secure that everything is ok.
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Hi,
>> In Edit/Preferences you can set the Units under Units/Guides. Under Pages
>> Display you can then set Always show doc page size
That is valid for how Adobe Reader shows units, but that does not tell you anything about which units the PDF itself has stored internally.
I'm not sure, but does the PDF even know anything about mm or cm or m? I guess no and so all you see in Adobe Reader is a converted number from inch to what ever you have set in your settings ... but again, I'm not very sure about that.
>> I have a workload of 129 drawings that has to get the pdf exchanged for a new version
Well, either in one drawing or multiple drawings, as far as I understand you don't do 129 times the same steps manually.
So my guess was which type of automatism do you use to get that done and why can't the imported PDF be scaled (as you wrote that this is no option)?
- alfred -
Alfred NESWADBA
ISH-Solutions GmbH / Ingenieur Studio HOLLAUS
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