Adobe 62000236 Extended User Guide - Page 92

USING ACROBAT 9 PRO EXTENDED 86 Creating PDFs 4 To determine how the AutoCAD layers are converted, select one of the following, and then click Continue: • Flatten All Layers. When layers are flattened, only those entities belonging to layers that are not frozen and are printable appear in the converted PDF. • Retain All Or Some Layers. In the next dialog box, specify the layers to include in the resulting PDF. 5 Specify a filename and location in the Save As dialog box, and click Save. Select AutoCAD layers to convert If you choose to retain all or some AutoCAD layers when converting to PDF, you can specify which layers are preserved in the PDF. 1 In AutoCAD, start to convert an AutoCAD file and select the Retain All Or Some Layers option. 2 To show specific AutoCAD layers in the Layers In Drawing list, do any of the following: • Choose an option from the Named Layer Filters menu to list all layers that fit that criterion. • Select the Invert option to list all layers except those layers that are described by the selected choice in the Named Layer Filters menu. • To change the sort order of the layers, click the headings. Note: To change the On, Frozen, or Plot properties for a layer, click Cancel, change the properties in the AutoCAD drawing, and restart the procedure. 3 To select the AutoCAD layers to convert, do any of the following: • Choose a previously saved set of layers from the PDF Layer Settings menu. • Select one or more layers from the Layers In Drawing List. • To convert all of the layers in the drawing, click Add All Layers, and go to step 5. 4 To add the selected AutoCAD layers to the Layers In PDF list, do one of the following: • To convert the selected AutoCAD layers to individual layers within a PDF layer set, click Create Layer Set. This action creates a folder of layers in the Layers navigation pane in Acrobat. • To convert the selected AutoCAD layers to individual layers, click Add Layer(s). 5 Optionally, do any of the following in the Layers In PDF list: • To reorder layers, drag an item up or down in the list. • To include a visibility property that can be switched on or off in Acrobat, deselect Locked On for the PDF layer. To lock the resulting PDF layer's visibility on, select Locked On. • To save the current list of selected AutoCAD layers, click Add PDF Setting. Later, you can retrieve this list from the PDF Layer Settings menu. 6 Click Convert, specify a filename and location, and then click Save. Convert AutoCAD files in batches 1 Choose Adobe PDF > Batch Conversion. 2 Specify your preferences for layers, page size, plot style, and output PDFs. Click Conversion Settings to specify the Acrobat PDFMaker settings. 3 In the DWG List, do any of the following: • Click Add Folder or Add Files, and then specify the folder or files. • To load a previously saved list of files, click Append List, and then specify the list. Last updated 9/30/2011