I am having trouble publishing to PDF. We are using the Autodesk DWG viewer (which comes on the CD with DWF Composer) as a batch plotting tool. It is about 6 times faster than Autocad for publishing and you can run several of them in the background while continuing to work on another dwg in Autocad. The DWG viewer is set to provide two publishing services. It can plot to a multi-sheet DWF and does so very well; or it can plot a set of dwgs to the specified plotter in the page setup. So far that seems to mimic the publish command in full Autocad. the DWG viewer does a great job of each of these in creating DWF files or hardcopy. I have even figured out a way to have it plot to individual PLT files for a particular client. Now for the problem. We have other clients who require individual sheet PDF files for their use. It is simple to create a multisheet DWF and then print to PDF to create a multisheet PDF, but the single sheet PDF files are causing a problem. When I use the same procedure to create single sheet PDF files, only the last tab printed from each DWG file is saved to the PDF file name matching the DWG file. Our DWG files use multiple tabs, such as the floor plan DWG with A11 and A12 for the first and second floor plans. If we publish from Autocad with the same set of DWG files (TS, A11, A12, A21, A31, A32, A33, A41, A51, A52, A53 - title sheet, floor plans, foundation, elevations, roof, and sections respectively with each group in one DWG file) the publish command creates a PDF file for each tab with the DWG filename + the tab name. Why can't the DWG viewer do the same thing when using the same procedure setup ? Is there a way to fix this ?
