Converting Autocad files to PDF

[ma_wilson]

Hello,

I am having a problem 'printing' my drawings to a PDF file. I am using Acrobat 7.0 pro, and I am trying to print a road design to a .pdf The file has a aerial background which of course will make the file large, but the fact is my computer just freezes up and runs out of memory when I try to convert it to the .pdf format. I have tried it on a couple machines around the office, and it will just not do it, not only on my machine, but on everyone elses also. When I can convert the drawing to a pdf, the files are HUGE! It is not abnormal for the files to be upwards around 60-70 megs. Can anyone give me a idea how to fix this?

[rkmcswain]

I don't understand.

 

You said "it will just not do it..", then you said "When I can convert the drawing to a pdf.."

 

Which is it? Is it just working sometimes? 60-70MB is not unusual for a plot file that contains aerial images. Have you tried Adobe support? The fact that Acrobat is freezing up is not really an AutoCAD issue. Can you print to DWF OK? If so, open the DWF and print that to a PDF as a workaround.

[ma_wilson]

Depending on the size of the drawing. example, right now I am trying to get a 8 page road design printed out in a pdf so I can email it to a client. I print it out of autocad, and select the acorbat PDF as the printer, and it locks autocad and freezes. Then a message will come on the screen saying it has ran out of memory.

after I tried this drawing a couple times with the same result, I have opened another design, which is smaller, and tried the same process. It takes a very long time, but eventually gets through the conversion, and the file size is really large.