14.3. Printing directly in PDF format

Printing in PDF provides industry-standard solution to publish the document in the popular PDF file format.

• For printing in PDF format please select the File menu – Print to PDF command.

• If you select the File menu – Print command, switch on the Print to PDF option in dialog window.

• Define the file name. The file extension will be .pdf. This file can be viewed or printed on any computer with a PDF viewer.

• Specify the size of the paper. Custom size is also selectable (choose Custom from the list). In that case you can specify the size in Horizontal and Vertical input fields.

• To specify the paper orientation, choose portrait or landscape in the Orientation list.

• File name and path can be specified by clicking on the File button.

Tiled pages

If one page is not enough to print out the drawing in the specified size, you can print out the whole drawing on tiled pages by specifying the size of the printing page in the Paper size setup dialog, for example A3 landscape.

On the Tiled pages button you can check the number of pages you need for printing.

The following message appears when you start to print:

In case of tiled pages extra PDF documents will be generated automatically. The extra PDF files are identified by numbers added to the end of the specified file name. For example, if the file name is Printing_example.pdf and you need 4 pages for printing out the drawing, 4 files will be created with the following names: Printing_example.pdf, Printing_example2.pdf, Printing_example3.pdf and Printing_example4.pdf.