Publish

[Alan Cullen]

I started using Publish last week. The problem I have is that when I set a printer up and name it, then select the layout tabs I want to plot. The plots go to two different printers at the same time.

I've even changed the default printer, but it still happens.

Anyone got any clue why this is happening?

Cheers

[Cad64]

Do all the layout tabs go to both printers, or do some go to one and some go to the other? The Publish command will use the default setup for each individual layout unless you override it in the Publish dialog.

[Alan Cullen]

Thanks, Cad64....

All layouts go to both printers.

How do I set up the default layout? I have been overriding it to use a specific page setup.

Now it's stopped working altogether......

Looks like for now, I'll have to go back to the old way of doing it, layout by layout.......

[Cad64]

All layouts go to both printers.

If that's the case, then sorry, I don't know what's causing it?

How do I set up the default layout? I have been overriding it to use a specific page setup.

When I said "default layout" I meant whatever page setup you have saved for each individual layout. For instance, one layout might be set for pdf and one might be set for your desktop printer and one might be set for your OCE plotter, etc. Then when you check the "Publish to Plotter Named in Page Setup" option in the Publish dialog, it will use those settings. But that's easily overridable in the Publish window.

[DODGE]

I think I just had an esp moment.
I just opened cad tutor to ask the question:
How do I get all my layouts to print to pdf in one hit.
At the moment I do each layout one at a time to Adobe pro ver 7
Then I open adobe and insert each layout into one file for emailing.
So is there away of sending all layouts at once to Adobe?
Cheers Dodge.

[Alan Cullen]

yup....use publish. We only just got Adobe Standard the other day, but haven't tried it yet. Got to plot manager and set up a a page setup for Adobe PDF, then select that page setup in publish.

[khama]

yup....use publish. We only just got Adobe Standard the other day, but haven't tried it yet. Got to plot manager and set up a a page setup for Adobe PDF, then select that page setup in publish.

I just batch publish from Autocad. Up to 80 or so drawings at a time, and where you select the printer in publish, choose Adobe PDF instead. When you publish the settings, they create electronic PDF copies and we print from them using Acroplot Pro.

[Alan Cullen]

I just found out why everything suddenly stopped printing.

The cyan ink cartridge was empty. I didn't get the warning on it. So decided to reboot and see if that would solve the problem. That's when the warning came up.

As for the issue of plots going to multiple printers, I'm still working on that. But I think I have solved it, just don't know what I did to solve it.

[DODGE]

yup....use publish. We only just got Adobe Standard the other day, but haven't tried it yet. Got to plot manager and set up a a page setup for Adobe PDF, then select that page setup in publish.

Hi Al
Can you step me thru setting up a page set up for adobe in plot manager so I can send approx 6 layouts at a time to adobe.
Thanks Cobber.
Dodge.

[Alan Cullen]

No wuckers, mate. Just go to the plot manager and set it up for an Adobe PDF write, and name the page setup to something appropriate. But set that page setup in a layout tab.

Then go to File > Publish, remove the layouts you don't want to write out, select the remainder, and go to Page Setup, and select that page setup name you just created.

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