PDF Printing from Bluebeam

[ron.sanpedro]

Has anyone successfully printed a drawing set to PDF from Bluebeam? The image I get for each page is fine, but Bluebeam isn't extracting the Sheet Name for the PDF the way it will the Layout Name in AutoCAD.
I know, DWF works, but our clients don't want DWFs, they want PDFs. I find it interesting that Revit had a PDF printer back when Autodesk had the lame idea that DWF could replace PDF. Now AutoCAD 2007 can make PDFs directly, and Revit no longer has a built in tool. Weird.

Thanks,
Gordon

[Wes Macaulay]

We're using pdfFactory, which you can get at www.fineprint.com

It will print multipage PDFs in a snap. Better performance than other PDF writers I've seen...

$50 US

[ford347]

I've been giving a postscript driver from adobe a shot that has actually been working quite well. its the 'Adobe PDFCT' driver. I select this as my printer, then click 'print to file', that way it doesnt' prompt for a file name or anything, then use the distiller to get them to pdf. This has worked pretty well so far but it is not a batch print either, or at least I don't know how to get it to batch. I will check out the above mentioned too. Sound easy. I am really digging dwf though. It has just a few unpredictable bugs though, the kinds you never know if they're going to be there, so I'm selective on when I use it.

[Fred Blome]

Pdf factory is still my fav. Batch plot works fine, single page or multiple page pdfs, auto names on batch single page plots. Just click and go. Keep it simple.

[trombe]

Hi,
I tried Bluebeam back at Revit 7 or so, and found that among about 5 pdf writers ( including Pinebrush), Bluebeam consistently made the largest files by some margin.

I think it is a way over hyped writer ( by the manufacturers of course) ...there are loads of writers at least as good ( such as pdf Factory, CutePDF, Primopdf, PDF995 as well as Adobe of course) but which produce much smaller files, even if they might not have all of the same features ( as each other).

2c
trombe

[Scott D Davis]

I've heard the next version of Windows will have PDF creation capabilities built in.

[ron.sanpedro]

Hi,
I tried Bluebeam back at Revit 7 or so, and found that among about 5 pdf writers ( including Pinebrush), Bluebeam consistently made the largest files by some margin.

I think it is a way over hyped writer ( by the manufacturers of course) ...there are loads of writers at least as good ( such as pdf Factory, CutePDF, Primopdf, PDF995 as well as Adobe of course) but which produce much smaller files, even if they might not have all of the same features ( as each other).

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trombe

We are using CutePDF now, and running into trouble printing from Adobe InDesign. Fonts look like **** using CutePDF or PDF995, but Adobe Acrobat and Bluebeam give me good fonts. But I'll be damned if I pay those loosers at Adobe $300 a seat for something my users need about 3 hours a month. Bluebeam was looking good, but without solid Revit support, it would become a headache sooner rather than later.
I need to check out PDF Factory. Maybe it works with InDesign as well.

Thanks,
Gordon

[ron.sanpedro]

I've heard the next version of Windows will have PDF creation capabilities built in.

But will it print nice fonts from Adobe products, batch plot properly from AutoCAD and Revit, make a nice small file with good looking images, and work with older Acrobat Readers that many of our clients still use? That is a tall order for Redmond But I certainly cross my fingers. I suspect I will have a beta on a VPC in the near future.

Gordon

[Steven Campbell]

I've heard the next version of Windows will have PDF creation capabilities built in.

I think that was the next version of Office, but I heard pdf support was pulled. I haven't had time to check the latest beta.

[Scott D Davis]

I think that was the next version of Office, but I heard pdf support was pulled. I haven't had time to check the latest beta.

Ah....thats too bad.