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schrodingerscat
2008-12-15, 06:20 AM
Long story why, but does anyone happen to know the "vanilla" PS plotter in AutoCAD?

I need to know which method of plotting to a PS file anybody who has AutoCAD 2008 (even straight out of the box) will have. My list of plotters has heaps of plotters (working and borked) that have been added by our ex-CAD manager and are now stuck there because of bureaucracy.

Cheers.

jaberwok
2008-12-15, 01:09 PM
Running the "add a plotter" wizard in A2008, the first option shown is "Adobe">"Postscript Level 1". There are also "Postscript Level 1 Plus" and "Postscript Level 2". None are installed by default.

schrodingerscat
2008-12-15, 10:31 PM
That could cause a problem... writing a program that will plot to a PS file, and use information extracted from the drawings to send command line args to another program, convert the PS to PDF and then name the PDF with our company naming convention and put it in the correct folder.

Since it will probably be used in other offices around the world I don't want to assume everyone has the same plotter settings as this office.