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USING ACROBAT 9 PRO
Creating PDFs
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.
To change the PDF conversion settings, choose Adobe PDF > Change Conversion Settings in AutoCAD.
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Do one of the following:
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• Click a button in the Adobe PDF toolbar: Convert To Adobe PDF
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• Choose Adobe PDF > Convert To Adobe PDF.
• Choose Adobe PDF > Convert To Adobe PDF And Email.
• Choose Adobe PDF > Convert To Adobe PDF And Send For Review.
In the Choose Layouts dialog box, add or remove layouts as needed. To reorder the layouts, select a layout from the
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Layouts In PDF list, and click Move Up or Move Down.
To determine how the AutoCAD layers are converted, select one of the following, and then click Continue:
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• 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.
Specify a filename and location in the Save As dialog box, and click Save.
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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.
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In AutoCAD, start to convert an AutoCAD file and select the Retain All Or Some Layers option.
To show specific AutoCAD layers in the Layers In Drawing list, do any of the following:
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• 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.
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.
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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.
To add the selected AutoCAD layers to the Layers In PDF list, do one of the following:
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• 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).
Optionally, do any of the following in the Layers In PDF list:
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• To reorder layers, drag an item up or down in the list.
Last updated 9/30/2011
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