mdilday Posted March 20, 2002 Share Posted March 20, 2002 Can I export a drawing to Adobe(.PDF) with VW 9.5?Operating system WIN 2K.Adobe Acrobat V5.0 [ 03-20-2002: Message edited by: mdilday ] [ 03-20-2002: Message edited by: mdilday ] Quote Link to comment
CipesDesign Posted March 20, 2002 Share Posted March 20, 2002 Yes, is the short answer. Here's how I do it (On a Mac): 1) I have a full working version of Acrobat; 2) with the VW document open I select Acrobat PDF Writer as my printer. 3) I go to page set-up and make sure that the correct page size and orientation is selected. 4) I go to print and make sure that the text rotation box is checked in the VW options menu. 5) I print. This automatically opens the PDF as soon as it's created, so I can see if it looks OK. BEWARE as I have had some strange experiences with my VW documents after creating PDF's from them (eg: page set-up stuck as per Acrobat settings and cannot be changed in VW) so, make a copy of your file first, just in case... PLC Mac G4 Quote Link to comment
CipesDesign Posted March 20, 2002 Share Posted March 20, 2002 So sorry. After re-reading your question I realized that my answer will not help you at all, since I'm on a Mac. I think there is a way to do it, but you'll have to rely on someone else's input... Again, apologies... PLC Quote Link to comment
AndyM Posted March 20, 2002 Share Posted March 20, 2002 Yes you can, When you install the full retail Acrobat(not the free reader)make sure you do a custom installation and select the option for the pdf writer. After it is installed you just print and select pdf writer as your printer. Quote Link to comment
aersloat Posted March 20, 2002 Share Posted March 20, 2002 I don't know much of anything about widows, but if you go to versiontracker.com and check their windows tab and do a search for "pdf" you will find a few free and shareware tools for generating pdfs. There is probably a ghostscript implementation for windows as well. In general you will need to generate a .ps (postscript) file first using Adobe's postscript printer driver. Or you can just buy Adobe Acrobat. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Andrew Bell@NV Posted March 21, 2002 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted March 21, 2002 quote: Originally posted by mdilday: Can I export a drawing to Adobe(.PDF) with VW 9.5? The typical way to do this is to install a PDF printer driver and print to it. The following page, devoted to a Mac PDF printer driver, lists at the bottom several Windows PDF printer drivers:http://www.jwwalker.com/pages/pdf.htmlThe full version of Adobe Acrobat also has such a driver, I believe. Quote Link to comment
Fuge Posted March 22, 2002 Share Posted March 22, 2002 Check out this link. It's Print2PDF forWindows. http://www.software602.com/products/printpack/pdf.html Dave Quote Link to comment
mdilday Posted March 22, 2002 Author Share Posted March 22, 2002 Link not working. Quote Link to comment
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