Attaching a pdf to a drawing

[Kat]

Hello everyone,

 

I was wondering how you attach a pdf to a drawing. I can attach just about any other image file to a drawing, but it's not letting me attach a pdf. Any suggestions? Thank you!!!

[Tiger]

Go Insert > OLE Object instead.

[Kat]

Horray! It worked, but now, how do I verify the scale? The pdf is 11X17 and I am trying to do a 24X36 sheet. Thank you, thank you!

[Tiger]

The easiest way I know of is having something in that PDf that you know the scale of, and use the SCALE command to get it right.

[sparkyuk]

Tiger tried that myself and failed all i got was

"failed to create object make sure the object is entered in the system registry",

 

please explain the steps you did

[Kat]

I was able to scale it. I used the scale and reference command. Parking spaces and doors work best for me to scale from. Thank you for your help!

[Tiger]

Tiger tried that myself and failed all i got was

"failed to create object make sure the object is entered in the system registry",

 

please explain the steps you did

 

The only thing I can think of is check what value you have on OLEFRAME - try setting 1 or 2 and see if that works.

 

Other than that it sounds like you aren't getting the PDF in properly, but why that would be I have no idea.

[sparkyuk]

Tiger ?

cheers did try altering that value was 2 set it to 1, but still the same,

 

also did try 2 different ways of inserting,

 

first way was = insert > OLE OBJECT> create new> object type> acrobat doument> OK

but same error "failed to create object make sure the object is entered in the system registry"

 

2nd way was= insert > OLE OBJECT> create from file> browse to file> OK

but same error "failed to create object make sure the object is entered in the system registry"

will the pdf need to be in a cad folder or something stupid like that ?

[Tiger]

It does sound like it's a problem with Adobe's connection to AutoCAD... i can't help you with that unfortunatly. If you want to get to the bottom of that, I'd suggest you start a new thread and describ pretty much what you described here - more likely to get a good answer with a new thread.