In "AutoCad Architecture" I can get line weights to plot properly by setting up the line thicknesses in the "Layer Properties" for the "Construct" and "View" drawing files and then changing the color of ALL layers to black in the "Layer Properties" for the "Sheet". You might not get the line weights quite right depending upon your setup, but it should work
also my local (blue) printer prefers that the plot files come as a pdf and not as a plot file such as one of the old default HP plotters It also makes it very easy to print out a sample or test of the plot because I just send the pdf directly to my printer and get 11x17 plots immediately I use DWG to pdf.pc3 because for some reason the Adobe pdf or one of the others does not seem to work as well if at all. So the question is (and was), how do you plot out a pdf file so that it looks identical to the (monochrome) dwg file when printed on paper, with lineweight thicknesses intact and all the lines being the same black level?ĭidn't that version of AutoCad already allow you to print to a pdf when you set up your printer options there should be several possible "pdf printers" available. You seem to lose the actual lineweight information in the process of creating the pdf file. And they are all the same thickness, just as they are when you create the drawing in AutoCAD's model space. And since you're printing it in B&W (monochrome), some of those lines are dark, some are light, and some (like text yellow) are basically invisible when plotted out. Instead, the colors that AutoCAD uses to represent lineweights in your workspace are what get printed from that pdf file. The AutoCAD lineweights do not transfer to the pdf file. The problem is that when you try to get somebody else, say a service bureau who does NOT have AutoCAD on THEIR computer, to print out that pdf file in black & white (monochrome) it does not look "right", as it does when you plot a dwg file directly.
That's easy, just select that option from the AutoCAD print screen. The problem is not in creating a pdf file. But I'm afraid I might not have made myself clear I apologize. Initiate starting to print, then in the corner of the dialog there is a pdf button that lets you make a PDF, once the pdf, opens you can "Save as" a pdf that your print shop can use.įirst, thanks to all that replied to my question about plotting pdf files. I believe that you can create a PDF from your print dialog box.
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dwg file into a PDF?Ī free way we used to do it is to print to PDF with the free CutePDF printer. How is this still an issue? Why not just hit print then save or email as a pdf? I recall solving the issue pdf's in the late '90's.