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Viewing PDF files

Viewing PDF files - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Viewing PDF files

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- [Voiceover] Now it may be when you're plotting your drawing electronically, you just want to quickly override all of your settings and perhaps just export out to a PDF file and use that PDF file to view the drawing itself. And what I'm going to do is go to the output tab on the ribbon, like so, and I've got my Export to DWF PDF. And I can click on this little fly-out here and say I want to export out to a PDF straight away. So I click that and it takes me to the big dialog box like that and it allows me to set all my settings for my PDF, like so. And there's all my different settings for my PDF. I can use the current layout, which is my GA layout here, and I'm going to override any existing page setup. As you can see, it goes out to something like 08_PlottingElectronically.PDF, and I would hit save and save that wherever I want it to go. I'm just going to cancel that now, and what I'm going to show you quickly is what it comes out like in the standard Acrobat PDF viewer. Now I've…

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