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Drawing > File > PDF Export

Commandline: pdf

Dialog Options

•Selected Printer - Make sure that you select a printer first.

•Plot Margins - Set the unit of measure and the Top, Bottom, Left and Right margins. NOTE: the printer driver will return the hard margins of the printer. These are represented by the black dashed line in the Partial Preview mode. Setting the margins less than the hard margin values will have no effect.

•Center - Adjusts the left and top margins to center the entities in the given space.

•Upside Down - Rotate the output to the plotter.

•Orientation - Portrait/Landscape.

•Paper Size

•Scale - Numerical scaling of the entities to the paper.

•Scale to Fit - Fit the entities to the paper.

•Black and White

•Out as Bitmap - Render to a bitmap then output that. Has different effect on quality depending on printer/plotter.

•Copies

•Pen Assignment - Shows the Pen Assignment dialog. You can assign a different line thickness to each of the 255 indexed colors.

•Print Area - Pick a window or print the extents.

•Preview Mode - Full preview or partial view to show margins.

•Update Preview - Refresh the preview.

•Save to File

•Select Printer

•Cancel