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  • AutoCAD 2013 Mac question – how to print in sizes I don't have a printer for?
  • Leku
    Free Member

    I have just amended some clients drawings and I need to print them out as A1 pdf’s. My printer is only A4.
    AutoCAD Mac doesn’t have a plotter manager.
    Is there a way of creating a ‘virtual’ printer to produce larger format pdf’s of drawings?
    I tried downloading HP drivers but they won’t install unless you have the actual printer attached.

    Thanks

    J

    yorkshire89
    Free Member

    Do you have ‘DWG to PDF’ plotter? If not you should be able to download from Autodesk website.

    cvilla
    Full Member

    or try Primo PDF, not sure about the apple variety?

    yorkshire89
    Free Member

    Primo only prints upto A3? Mine does anyway.

    TPTcruiser
    Full Member

    Don’t PDFs scale for the printer you’re using? Especially from vector graphics.
    Send them the PDF and they can print from that.

    Leku
    Free Member

    Sorted. Simpler than that. Did Print – Paper Size – Manage Custom Sizes then created an A1 sheet size for my A4 printer.

    Rockhopper
    Free Member

    If you are printing to PDF does it even matter what physical printer you have connected?

    Leku
    Free Member

    As above. Turns out it doesn’t but you still have to choose a printer then a paper size.

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