PDF from Autocad not naming correctly

tblancha · Post by **tblancha** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:41 pm

When I create a pdf from Autocad 2008, the pdf name is only part of the drawing name.
Example: Drawing name is "P060087.H2.30_3.dwg" which has 4 layouts in it name H2.30, H2.31, H2.32 and H2.33.
When I make the pdf, it names it "P060087.H2.30_3 H2.pdf" and does it 4 times with the same name because of 4 layouts. Which means it wants to overwrite itself.
It should name it according to what the layout name is.
IE: "P060087.H2.30", "P060087.H2.31", "P060087.H2.32" and "P060087.H2.33".
I have trialed Acroplot and Adobe and it does it correctly.
Can anyone help me with this. I only have the trial version because I will not purchase it if it does this normally.

Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:30 pm

Will fix into next build. if it is urgent for you and you know JavaScript, you can try to realize handling of file names from Autocad into titrules.js file which is located into pdfSaver folder under your installation path of PDF-XChange.

tblancha · Post by **tblancha** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:46 pm

What would be the timeframe for the next build? Possibly looking at 100 users or more purchase??
Can you give me an updated js file with the changes and I can try it?
Thanks!

Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:31 am

Try titrules.js file from attachment. Please extract it from attached ZIP file into the folder where current one is located.

tblancha · Post by **tblancha** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:22 pm

Does exactly the same. No change.
I tried both ways with the "Strip Path from Document Name" thinking it might be that and it names it exactly the same both ways now. The document path doesn't show up at all either way. Which I don't want but I thought I would let you know.
Still cuts off the drawing/layout name. P060087.H2.10_3 H2.pdf
Do you have Autocad? I could send you a drawing with multiple layouts.

Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:29 pm

Yes, I have AC. please send me you DWG file.

tblancha · Post by **tblancha** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:57 pm

Here it is.

Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:35 pm

Please set on Save page of printing preferences dialog value of
File field to %[DocName].pdf all will works as expected (for example, the name of the file when you print H2.10 layout will be P060087.H2.10_3 H2.10.pdf). Trouble is because original file name we got is P060087.H2.10_3 H2.10, and PDF-XChange treats .10 as file extension, and replace it with .pdf.

tblancha · Post by **tblancha** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:00 pm

Worked great. Thanks!
Another quick question I hope. Our secretary's are looking to batch print multiple documents at once and have it make a PDF file.
Can this program do that easily?
Thanks

Post by **John - Tracker Supp** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:05 pm

Hi,

Assuming you mean MS Office files ?

Yes - if you have PDF-XChange PRO or Standard - see the OFFice2PDF application Icon on your desktop and the relevant section in the Help file?PDF manual.