Adobe Acrobat XI - Manual (Page 132)

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Creating PDFs
Last updated 1/14/2015
Note: To change the On, Frozen, or Plot properties for a layer, click Cancel, change the properties in the AutoCAD
drawing, and restart the procedure.
3 To select the AutoCAD layers to convert, do any of the following:
• Choose a previously saved set of layers from the PDF Layer Settings menu.
• Select one or more layers from the Layers In Drawing List.
• To convert all of the layers in the drawing, click Add All Layers, and go to step 5.
4 To add the selected AutoCAD layers to the Layers In PDF list, do one of the following:
• To convert the selected AutoCAD layers to individual layers within a PDF layer set, click Create Layer Set. This
action creates a folder of layers in the Layers navigation pane in Acrobat.
• To convert the selected AutoCAD layers to individual layers, click Add Layer(s).
5 Optionally, do any of the following in the Layers In PDF list:
• To reorder layers, drag an item up or down in the list.
• To include a visibility property that can be switched on or off in Acrobat, deselect Locked On for the PDF layer.
To lock the resulting PDF layer’s visibility on, select Locked On.
• To save the current list of selected AutoCAD layers, click Add PDF Setting. Later, you can retrieve this list from
the PDF Layer Settings menu.
6 Click Convert, specify a filename and location, and then click Save.
Convert AutoCAD files in batches
1 Choose Adobe PDF > Batch Conversion.
2 Specify your preferences for layers, page size, plot style, and output PDFs. Click Conversion Settings to specify the
Acrobat PDFMaker settings.
3 In the DWG List, do any of the following:
• Click Add Folder or Add Files, and then specify the folder or files.
• To load a previously saved list of files, click Append List, and then specify the list.
• As needed, expand individual files and select or deselect the items you want, such as model space and layouts. To
exclude or include all model space, click the associated buttons.
• To exclude a file from the conversion, deselect the file box. As needed, select or deselect all of the files in the list,
change the order of the files, remove files, or clear the list.
• To show the complete file paths, select Expand File Name(s).
• To save the DWG list for later use, click Save List. This action saves the list in its current state, including the file
order and file selections. You can retrieve this list at any time by clicking Append List.
4 Click Convert.
5 Once the conversion has finished, you can click Save Details to save a log file of the conversion.
Application-specific PDFMaker settings
Sometimes the conversion settings in one PDFMaker-enabled application are different from the settings in a different
application.
Some PDFMaker settings are common to several or most applications. Some options are unique to a specific
application.