Emulate 2004 plotting

Using Acad R2005 there is one major flaw (for our office anyway) and that's
batch plotting. We now have to create a page set up depending on what
printer we send it to, and wether it is landscape or portrait. The next
step, which is tricky and tedious(especially when you have 20-30 dwgs to
print), is to go through and select the dwgs that need to printed in the
page set up for each individual drawing in the publish dialog box.
So we use R2004 for printing and R2005 for everything else. With
R2005 if you select more than one tab then only one tab will print, forcing
you to use the publish dialog box.
My question is this; can some of the Autocad R2004 program be reinstated
into R2005, so plotting behaves as before? I can imagine this might be
impossible - but I thought I would ask the question.

The other option is - can a lisp be written so that it will plot the
selected tabs just like in R2004?

Any help is appreciated
Russ

 

hi,

read in another ng :

Select Tabs, hold CTRL and menu Files > Print...

no tested

Bruno Toniutti

 

Hmmm... Nope only works in acad 2004 -- I just wish it was that simple!

Does anybody know how I can plot all of the tabs? If I can plot one surely
it may be possible to loop through the remaining tabs?
I'm desperate for some kind of a fix to this problem
thanks Russ