Convert to PDF

[cadfans1999]

The program below is probably the best way to do this. They give a free trial version.
http://anydwg.com/dwg2pdf/

[rkmcswain]

not sure why it would pull info from that though?

If you are publishing to individual files, it has to provide a separate file name for each plot file when more than one layout comes from the same drawing. So the template it uses is:
[Drawing Name]-[LayoutName].[file ext]