Commands for Publishing Settings

Use these commands and system variables to set options for publishing.

Commands

• EXPORT Saves the objects in a drawing to a different file format.
• PAGESETUP Controls the page layout, plotting device, paper size, and other settings for each new layout.
• PLOTTERMANAGER Displays the Plotter Manager, where you can add or edit a plotter configuration.

• PLOT Plots a drawing to a plotter, printer, or file.
• PUBLISH Publishes drawings to DWF, DWFx, and PDF files, or to printers or plotters. Note that -PUBLISH command is not available in LT.
• SHEETSET Opens the Sheet Set Manager.
• VIEWPLOTDETAILS Displays information about completed plot and publish jobs.

System Variables

• BACKGROUNDPLOT Controls whether background plotting is turned on or off for plotting and publishing. Recommend this always be tuned off/set to 0.
• PUBLISHALLSHEETS Specifies whether to load the contents of the active document or of all open documents in the Publish dialog box.
• PUBLISHCOLLATE Controls whether plotting a sheet set, multi-sheet plot file, or plot spool file can be interrupted by other plot jobs.

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Commands for Publishing Settings