The DWGtoPDF Translator:


  1) INSTALL
  2) GETTING STARTED
  3) COMMANDS
      a) PDFADDPAGE
      b) PDFADDLINK
      c) PDFADDPAGELINK
      d) PDFADDURLLINK
      e) ACADPDFINDEX
      f)  PDFOUT
  4) SETUP






 1) INSTALL
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In order to use the program you must unzip files in the same folder. Then load the arx (dwgtopdf.arx) into AutoCAD. 
Files required are:

 - DWGtoPDF.ARX
 - PDFA4POR.DWG
 - ACADPDFFILELINK


 2) GETTING STARTED
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DWGtoPDF allows you the translation of your drawings into PDF file format. This isn't a commercial software just
a little training in software developement, so please take it "as is".
In order to use this package you have to insert some A4 templates into your drawing by mean of "PDFADDPAGE":
this command insert an A4 layout with the page number. The PDF document reflects this enumeration.
Once you have some A4 layout you can put in it your data. Only objects inside the layout will be exported to PDF.


 3) COMMANDS
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 a) PDFADDPAGE

By "PDFADDPAGE" insert the A4 template with the number of page automatically increased. This number is an 
AutoCAD block Attribute, use the standard AutoCAD command to change this value. Now you can put primitives 
in your template.

Please remember that programs support only Jpeg and Tiff image format. DWGtoPDF doesn't support block recursion,
so you must explode your drawing at the maximum level before begin translate.


 b) PDFADDLINK

If you want attach an external text file (ascii) as PDF note use PDFADDFILELINK: select file and note position.


 c) PDFADDPAGELINK

To create a pdf page link use PDFADDPAGELINK: select entities and put the number of page in dialog box.


 d) PDFADDURLLINK

To create an URL link use PDFADDURLLINK: fill the edit box.


 e) ACADPDFINDEX

To create a PDF index item:	
	create layer "ACADPDFINDEX" 
	insert an acad text in this layer
	
When translation begins, the program scans pages to create index items with the correct links


 f) PDFOUT

Trivial: to convert your drawing run PDFOUT



 4) SETUP
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The main dialog contains several controls to adjoust your translation (color conversion, font scale, 
curve resolution, index preview,...). They are very easy to understand. Just a little remark: be careful
with curve resolution, PDF size is greatly affected by this value.

Try 'n let me know your impressions and... bugs. Bye.