A new feature in Acrobat 8 is you have the ability to create a PDF of a dwg without having an AutoCAD license! I personally know several people who have an AutoCAD license just to be able to open, view, and print a dwg. Now you just simply right-click on the dwg and choose convert to pdf. Even better you can choose multiple dwg's and right-click and choose combine into pdf. It is that simple. Customer have been clapping, cheering everything short of dancing when this feature is shown. Who knew it would cause that much excitement.....
To convert a dwg to pdf, I do not have the right click option of converting to pdf. When I select "Open with" and pick reader 8.1, I get an error message that the file format is not supported. Any other idea how I can convert the file?
Hi Jesse,
You have to use Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro. This message is from the Free Adobe Reader. Once you install Adobe Acrobat you can just simply drag and drop the dwg into an open Acrobat window.
http://www.adobe.com/acrobat
Jonathan