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BACKGROUNDPLOT
Controls whether background plotting is turned on or off for plotting and
publishing.
Create and Modify a Drawing Set for Publishing
You can assemble a collection of drawing sheets to publish all at once to single
or multiple DWF, DWFx, or PDF files. You can customize your drawing set
for a specific user; and you can add, remove, reorder, copy, and rename sheets
in a drawing set as a project evolves.
You can publish directly to an electronic format that can be distributed using
E-mail, FTP sites, project web sites, or CD. You can save a drawing set that's
been assembled to publish in a Drawing Set Descriptions (DSD) file.
NOTE You must remove the drawing sheets that you don't want to become a
part of the drawing set. Layouts must be initialized before they can be published.
(A layout is initialized if its paper size is defined in the page setup to any size other
than 0 x 0.)
To create a drawing set for publishing
1 Open a drawing. Click Output tab ➤ Publish panel ➤ Publish.
The Publish dialog box is displayed. If the Include Layouts When Adding
Sheets option is selected in the shortcut menu, all the layouts in the
current drawing are listed in the sheetlist.
2 In the Publish dialog box, you can modify the list of sheets by doing any
of the following as needed:
■ Add sheets. To add sheets from other drawings, click the Add Sheets
button (or drag drawings from the desktop). In the Select Drawings
dialog box, select drawings. Click Select to add them to the list of
sheets in the Publish dialog box. All of the layouts in a drawing become
individual sheets in the list of drawing sheets. You can remove the
individual sheets if you do not want them to become part of the
drawing set. A layout must be initialized (its paper size must be defined
in the page setup to any size other than 0 x 0) before it can be
published.
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