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If you need to export an AutoCAD DWG drawing to the PDF format, you probaly use - like most AutoCAD users - plotting to a PDF pseudo-printer (Windows driver) PDF, or the more convenient direct print to the predefined "printer" DWG To PDF.pc3 available in the latest AutoCAD versions.

But you can also use a faster way (since version 2010), the EXPORTPDF command with direct entry of parameters and output of the PDF file.

For even faster solution for creating PDF files you can use the automatic publishing of a PDF version (copy) of a drawing on every save of the current DWG drawing. You can set it (since AutoCAD 2010) in the dialog Options, the Plot and publish tab - "Automatic publishing" (and the AUTOPUBLISH command). In older AutoCAD versions you can use our free utility AutoPDF.

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8.10.2010    18563×  
applies to: AutoCAD ·

See also:
Tip 14604:QRcode - dynamically generated QR codes in AutoCAD.
Tip 14481:How to bulk publish a folder of DWG/DXF files to PDF?
Tip 14472:Overview of CAD formats supported in Inventor 2026 (import/export/AnyCAD).
Tip 14347:PDFIMPORT - No objects were imported.
Tip 14075:Overview of CAD formats supported in Inventor 2025 (import/export/AnyCAD).


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