PDF Filename Dialog Box (Linford)

Is there a way to print a PDF and skip the Acrobat File name dialog box?

Can I do this automatically with Lisp or VBA?

Thanks,

David

 

I actually do this through my windows printer configuration. I have
configured my pdf port to be clot\*.pdf (makes it easier to find for me)
and I have also unchecked to option to prompt for file name.

 

I have unchecked the option for prompt for file name.

Now, how do I control the File name & Path.

David

 

That is doine under the PDF port setting on the printer options. You need to
create a new port pick the pdf port option then point it at

{yourpath}\*.pdf

Then it will have the same name as whatever program sends to it. IE if the
dwg you are working on is called test then the filename will be test model
(1).pdf , with viewportname replacing model if it is a paperspace viewport.

 

Thanks so much for your help Stewart.

This allows me to plot to a fixed directory. Is there any way to be able to print to a directory & file name specified in a lsp or vba plot routine? And have this directory and/or filename change?

Thanks again,

David

 

There probably is but I have never gone any further then what you see here
as usually as I batch plot them if they need to be in the same directory as
the original I just cut and paste from my plot directory back to the
original file directory.

--
Stewart

to print to a directory & file name specified in a lsp or vba plot routine?
And have this directory and/or filename change?

 

Where do you find this option - prompt for filename. Mine doesn't appear to
have it. What 'PDF' printer are you using?

Casey

 

Hi David

this works in VBA


Public Sub plotme()

Dim myFile As String
Dim currentPlot As AcadPlot
Dim myLen As Long

' Cut the .DWG
myLen = Len(ThisDrawing.FullName) - 4
myFile = Left(ThisDrawing.FullName, myLen)
Set currentPlot = ThisDrawing.Plot
currentPlot.PlotToFile (myFile)
Set currentPlot = Nothing

End Sub

Erich

 

Using it from the command line
(command "plot" "adobe...
When you get to the section where it asks to plot to file, type yes. It will create a 0 byte plot file that you can delete, but it will also create the pdf without the dialog prompt.

 

You can disable this option right within Acrobat.

When you go into your printer options, and the type of PDF file you
generate, (ebook, web, etc) you can disable the dialog box. it will
automatically print it to a default folder and assume the name of the file.
(ie, Drawing1 Layout1.pdf)

One caveate, is that if you use "." (periods) in your filename, is messes
up the filenaming that acrobat assigns. Good luck.

 

Erich,

That routine works great. But I have a problem and I don't know if it is related.

When I plot to what I think is my PDF plotter it creates PostScript files. I can convert them to PDF later but I am trying to avoid extra steps.

Thanks,

David

 

Hi David

sorry for the delayed answer, i was out of town.

You can use the Adobe PDFcreator as plotter, but there are some quality
problems with small texts, so we use a postscriptdriver and then convert
the plt to pdf.

Use this code to convert automatic after the plot

Option Explicit ' require variable declarations

' Declare a Distiller variable with events enabled
Dim WithEvents Pdf As PdfDistiller

'''''

Set Pdf = New PdfDistiller ' make a new Distiller object
Pdf.Create ' start the Distiller (so we see startup log messages)
Pdf.FileToPDF myFile & ".plt", "", ""
Set Pdf = Nothing
''''''

Erich