PDF conversion
Anyone know how to convert drawings in batches to thepdf format? I have acrobat 5.0 and able to print eachdrawing to the acrobat rewriter thru bricscad but it'stedious doing them one at a time. I'm also looking intoa third-party program that does this, maybe somebodycan recommend one.
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There's a program, "PDF995" that installs as a printer on your system. I think it costs about $20 US. I use it - works well.You could try a Google search to find it.
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You can do this with pdfcreator, available for free from sourceforge. Install it, go to native printer options available through Start>Programs>PDFCreator>PDFCreator>Printer>OptionsSet Autosave and whatever naming tokens and default path you prefer.Put doslib4.dll in your Bricscad install folder. It is available from ftp://ftp2.mcneel.com/pub/doslib/doslib4.exe (it's an archive, unpack it to get the file)Create this lisp file, bprint.lsp:(defun C:BPRINT (/ )(if (not dos_dir) (xload "doslib4.dll"))(setq files (dos_getfilem "Select files to print.." "c:\""Drawing Files (.dwg)|.dwg"))(setq dwgpath (car files))(if (/= files nil)(progn(foreach dwgfile (acad_strlsort (setq dwgsonly (cdr files)) dwgsonly)(command ".open" (strcat dwgpath dwgfile))(command ".qprint")(command ".qsave")(command ".close")))))Load the lisp in Bricscad. You should probably create a correct plot with your desired output parameters first, if plot parameters aren't already saved in your files (in case they are not, you should also select "save changes to layout" and "use settings from previous plot")Run Bprint, select the files to output to pdf. Good luck!
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