AutoCAD's Built In DWG to PDF

[happyunited]

IN AutoCAD 2010 this works a treat except it includes all the layers in the pdf which can be swicthed on/off and I dont really want the reciever to be able to do this. Any way of turning this off?

 

Cheers

[chulse]

You can edit the custom properties to exclude layer info. I also set mine to convert fonts to graphics (solves the missing font popup error I was getting occasionally).

Save it as a new .PC3 file...

[happyunited]

Thanks for that. Sorted!

 

I have tried to filter the custom paper sizes because there are loads and I only ever use about 4. I think I have created a .pmp file but I can't select that when plotting.

 

Any Ideas?

[chulse]

I have never tried that...

[happyunited]

You can edit the custom properties to exclude layer info. I also set mine to convert fonts to graphics (solves the missing font popup error I was getting occasionally).

Save it as a new .PC3 file...

 

How do I set it to convert fonts to graphics?

 

Cheers

[chulse]

Change the custom properties:

you can change the resolution to help reduce file sizes also. I think 300 dpi is more than enough.

Maybe you don't have the same options in an older version...?

I attached the one I use (remove the .txt extension).

Copy of DWG To PDF-FLAT.pc3.txt

[RingSteel]

Thanks chulse for the info and the images!

 

Is there any way to print a pdf so that the file can be marked up using Adobe Acrobat? (highlight text and similar)

[chulse]

For the text to be "seen as text" (and not as one big image) by Adobe , uncheck the "as geometry" box under Font Handling.

 

The file should be able to be manipulated by Acrobat either way (markups, etc)...