Adobe Acrobat XI - Manual (Page 131)

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Creating PDFs
Last updated 1/14/2015
2 (Optional) From the Files Of Type menu, select Autodesk AutoCAD, then click the Settings button and change the
conversion settings as needed. The settings are the same as the AutoCAD-specific Acrobat PDFMaker settings, with
the following additions:
Convert Model Space To 3D When selected, the model space layout is converted to a 3D annotation in the PDF.
Click Choose 3D Settings to specify 3D conversion options.
Configuration Preferences Click this button to specify resource directories for SHX font files, plot configuration
files, and plot style tables for AutoCAD drawings. If an SHX Font File Search Path is not specified, all SHX fonts are
replaced with MyriadCAD in converted PDFs.
Always Show This Dialog During Conversion When selected, this dialog box appears during the conversion process.
3 Locate and select the AutoCAD file.
4 If the Adobe PDF Settings For Autodesk AutoCAD Documents dialog box appears, specify the settings as needed,
and click OK.
Convert AutoCAD files when AutoCAD is installed
When converting individual AutoCAD files, you don't usually need to change page size and plotting settings.
PDFMaker uses the appropriate layout page size and plotting information to create a correctly sized PDF file.
1 To change the PDF conversion settings, choose Adobe PDF > Change Conversion Settings in AutoCAD.
2 Do one of the following:
• Click a button in the Adobe PDF toolbar: Convert To Adobe PDF or Convert To Adobe PDFAnd Send For
Review .
• Choose Adobe PDF > Convert To Adobe PDF.
• Choose Adobe PDF > Convert To Adobe PDF And Email.
• Choose Adobe PDF > Convert To Adobe PDFAnd Send For Review.
3 In the Choose Layouts dialog box, add or remove layouts as needed. To reorder the layouts, select a layout from the
Layouts In PDF list, and click Move Up or Move Down.
4 To determine how the AutoCAD layers are converted, select one of the following, and then click Continue:
• Flatten All Layers. When layers are flattened, only those entities belonging to layers that are not frozen and are
printable appear in the converted PDF.
• Retain All Or Some Layers. In the next dialog box, specify the layers to include in the resulting PDF.
5 Specify a filename and location in the Save As dialog box, and click Save.
Select AutoCAD layers to convert
If you choose to retain all or some AutoCAD layers when converting to PDF, you can specify which layers are preserved
in the PDF.
1 In AutoCAD, start to convert an AutoCAD file and select the Retain All Or Some Layers option.
2 To show specific AutoCAD layers in the Layers In Drawing list, do any of the following:
• Choose an option from the Named Layer Filters menu to list all layers that fit that criterion.
• Select the Invert option to list all layers except those layers that are described by the selected choice in the Named
Layer Filters menu.
• To change the sort order of the layers, click the headings.