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ACAD .dwg to .pdf on large paper??

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From: Willy_P
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 03:07
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I can setup my acad layouts on 36" and 42" wide paper, put because I don't have a plotter inhouse that wide Adobe Acrobat refuses to convert my .dwg files to .pdf if I has the cad file layout set to the large size paper. But I want to take the .pdf file to my local Kinko's to print, they can't run acad files, but they can run .pdf files, we've tried every acad file available, no go, only .pdf will work.

Apparently Acrobat looks at what plotters/printers I have installed and tells me I can't do it that large, because I don't have anything installed that will actually print on paper that large, so it refuses to make the .pdf file.

Is there any way to get Acrobat to go ahead and make the .pdf file without trying to limit this paper size this way? I have been digging around for awhile and haven't been able to find a solution, short of finding the drivers for a large format plotter and installing them to fool Acrobat into thinking I can actually print them on an inhouse machine, but I shouldn't have to do that.

Anybody???
Willy P.
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