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(March 4, 2015 at 9:36 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: CM, is your PUBLISHCOLLATE system variable set to 1 or 0? That one variable seems to be the source of more printing misery than all others combined. Whatever the setting, try the opposite.
Didn't make a difference.
Here's the issue in (relative) full if you care to read about it
My office has prototype construction document files set up for AutoCAD that include office standard things like layers, page layout tabs, and other similar things to make creating a CD faster and makes them all "standard" between projects, which also includes standard Page Setups for printing (all the printing options are preset for certain common printing functions).
Recently, the office got a new small format printer and we switched from Adobe PDF editors to a cheaper PDF editor, so we lost out preset page setups for the old physical printer and the Adobe PDF creator and I'm having to go through and modify the old settings.
Everything works fine for the physical printer, but for the PDF printer things get weird fast.
If you want to print a 24x36 plan sheet to a PDF, unless you have it set up in a certain way, it will plot the PDF oriented "portrait" instead of "landscape" so you have to go through with a PDF editor and rotate every page for the correct orientation. With one-off prints it's not a big deal to rotate pages, but when your CD set is 90 sheets it wastes valuable time having to rotate every PDF. This was a problem with the old Adobe PDF printer, but we figured out a work around and it did fine.
With the new PDF printer, though, in order to get the PDF to print (create the PDF) pre-rotated to the "landscape" orientation you have to create a user-defined page size, which everyone in the office will have to do, and they all have to be named identically in order for the preset Page Setups to work correctly.
This isn't a big problem EXCEPT that no one in the office can remember how we created the saved user-defined page sizes that we already have saved, and everyone's saved user-defined page sizes are named different things so the presets won't work.
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Ah... printers.. what joy they are... even the virtual ones.
Use linux!
Hey, did you know that, in windows, when you tick the little box that says "print to file", it prints a file ready to send to a the printer via the command line "copy <filename.prn> LPT1:"?
The beauty of this is that, if you have a postscript printer, then the file will be postscript, which is an awesome standard!
CM, why do you guys use PDF instead of postscript?
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(March 5, 2015 at 12:17 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: Here's the issue in (relative) full if you care to read about it
My office has prototype construction document files set up for AutoCAD that include office standard things like layers, page layout tabs, and other similar things to make creating a CD faster and makes them all "standard" between projects, which also includes standard Page Setups for printing (all the printing options are preset for certain common printing functions).
Recently, the office got a new small format printer and we switched from Adobe PDF editors to a cheaper PDF editor, so we lost out preset page setups for the old physical printer and the Adobe PDF creator and I'm having to go through and modify the old settings.
Everything works fine for the physical printer, but for the PDF printer things get weird fast.
If you want to print a 24x36 plan sheet to a PDF, unless you have it set up in a certain way, it will plot the PDF oriented "portrait" instead of "landscape" so you have to go through with a PDF editor and rotate every page for the correct orientation. With one-off prints it's not a big deal to rotate pages, but when your CD set is 90 sheets it wastes valuable time having to rotate every PDF. This was a problem with the old Adobe PDF printer, but we figured out a work around and it did fine.
With the new PDF printer, though, in order to get the PDF to print (create the PDF) pre-rotated to the "landscape" orientation you have to create a user-defined page size, which everyone in the office will have to do, and they all have to be named identically in order for the preset Page Setups to work correctly.
This isn't a big problem EXCEPT that no one in the office can remember how we created the saved user-defined page sizes that we already have saved, and everyone's saved user-defined page sizes are named different things so the presets won't work.
We had a similar problem moving from Adobe to Bluebeam. Have you tried setting up the custom paper size in either the PDF software or in the Windows printer settings?
These things are a pain in the ass because AutoDesk seems to consider printing/plotting such an afterthought.
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