Re: VPC7, AutoCAD, HP Designjet 130

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Paul Power wrote:

Do the page setup on the Mac side first or directly at the printer.
Once that is completed, it will print from Windows with the settings
that you specified.

So far I've spent, well, several years trying to figure out how to do
this. I'm not a Mac newbie: been using Macs since day one. I eventually
took the coward's way out and bought a PC. This is the only reason, the
only use I had for a PC: but when I looked at how many billable
man-hours I wasted on trying to do it on a Mac, I had to capitulate. So
I just fired up the darn PC once or twice a week to print out AutoCAD
files. Other than that I NEVER used the PC: I'm a devoted, die-hard
Mac user.

Now, after another few months of frustration trying again to do it via
VPC, I settled on using a Print-to-PDF utility in Windows XP.
Embarrassingly enough, this idea came from "AutoCAD LT 2005 for
Dummies."

This allows me to change page setups, page sizes, color or mono, etc.,
on the fly while working exclusively in the Virtual PC world. After
I've printed to PDF in VPC, I can simply drag the PDF files from my
Virtual PC desktop to my Mac OSX desktop. I then do the hardcopy
printing in my comfortable Mac environment. This also handles all the
scaling issues, since AutoCAD files are intended to be printed out as
scalable blueprints. I just print-to-PDF at full size using AutoCAD DWG
Viewer in VPC. This gives me a PDF file that I can slide over to the
Mac side, and them print at full architectural size, say 42"x30" or for
a half-size print, just have Adobe PDF Reader print out at 50%.

The utility I'm using (recommended in AutoCAD LT for Dummies) is
PDF995. It is a free download at www.pdf995.com. It is shareware of
sorts: there's a $10 charge to get rid of some ad windows. But, if
you want to use it for free, it's totally legal. But, I'm going to
pay the fee. This is Soooooo worth it.

.

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