From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

Aren't there a plethora of free viewers for Autocad files out there? Are
those for some reason out of the question?


Antti Kurenniemi
(I've no clue about Autocad myself, but I think I've seen a few of these
here and there...)

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:44a2aa5a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> (Pardon the interjection in a sea of WGA. I'll try to return to a mood of
> rage and dudgeon asap....)
>
> Someone here deals with Autocad daily.  I'm way, way out of touch.
>
> Say you're talking to an ACAD jockey who's most definitely NOT a computer
> type.  He's firmly mired in printing out his work, on a (!) blueline roll
> printer and a 4' wide DesignJet color thingie.  He does ONLY architectural
> drawings - plans, elevations and details, line drawings with dimensions.
> He wants to send customers a file that they can at least scroll around on
> their recent computer screens, and perhaps print out sections of.  He runs
> Acad 2004.
>
> What would you advise him to do, to output to, I guess, PDF?
>
> Is DXF used at all any more?
>
> Is the full Acrobat any more convenient for this than the freeware
> programs, or Geo's print to PS-then-PDF solution?
>
> Is there such a thing as a quick and dirty "booklet printer"
program that
> will print a huge drawing to a letter/A4-size printer in slightly
> overlapping pieces, so that the pages can be slapped in a gripper binder
> and taken away?
>
> This is *not* a manufacturing operation.  There will  be no numerical
> cutting/layout/modeling.  Parts/materials lists can be stripped.  No one
> will measure from the drawings.  The contractors will have real full-size
> drawings. I'd guess freedom from bitmap-conversion jaggies is important,
> though.
>
> Am I thinking inside the box?

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