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General

Defining Large-Format Custom Page Sizes

Engineering How-to Guide (Adobe Systems)

Supporting Document Interchange in the Collaborative Engineering Environment (Oce)

Advanced

Using PDF to Import Text into Drawings

Importing PDF into CAD Drawings

Adding Redlines and Comments to PDF Files

Flattening PDF Annotations

Comparing two PDF Files

AutoCAD

AutoCAD Printing and Page Orientation

AutoCAD Searchable Text in PDF Files

 

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Integration with CAD software

PDF files can be created from any type of software that supports printed output:
  • CAD (Computer-Aided Design) software
  • 3-dimensional rendering software
  • Desktop publishing programs
  • Word processing software
  • Raster image editors

Users of CAD applications will sometimes need to employ special setups in both their CAD software and the PDF printer driver in order to obtain good output.  Although some PDF creation utilities have been designed especially for CAD users, many are general-purpose tools that will require application-specific tuning.

With almost all of these non-CAD-specific drivers some setup is required to use large-format page sizes.  

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