by NateB » Thu Oct 01, 2015 2:56 am
I would recommend you try out Autodesk TrueView. It is available free from AutoDesk website, just pick your operating system. It is a full DWG viewer and packs the full set of AutoCAD print drivers, etc. It is basically like printing from real AutoCAD.
Once installed, copy your plot table files to TrueView's Plotters Folder.
Choose AutoDesk's DWG to PDF as the "Printer" and customize your various print sizes as Plotter Configs. You may have to choose the "Full Bleed" Paper Sizes. AutoDesk's DWG to PDF yields superior quality PDFs to Acrobat's Drivers in my opinion. By default, this also writes layer info to the PDF. This may be undesirable in some cases and can be turned off in the printer properties.
There is a downside: Trueview does not save the plotter settings to the layouts. What I do for this is set as much as I can from InteliCAD, such as the print area, etc. True View will relate to that. It is a bit of extra work, but worth it for the results.
I also use (on my laptop), "PDF ReDirect2", also free, which has turned out to be a surprisingly decent PDF-er. It installs as a Printer and shows up as such when you plot from IntelliCAD.