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April 28, 2014
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Acrobat XI Standard and AutoCAD

  • April 28, 2014
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I downloaded the trial of XI Pro and it works fine for printing (creating a pdf) out of AutoCAD 2013 in both D and E size sheets. However, I do not need the extra features which Pro has, but cannot try a trial of Standard to see if it will work the same. To any AutoCAD users out there, I had to create a custom .pc3 file to get Pro to plot to a pdf in the correct orientation. Once I did that, all is fine. Is there anyone who is specifically using XI Standard and AutoCAD 2013 that has made a custom .pc3 file and can verify that Standard works correctly with AutoCAD? No need to respond if you are using X or older because that will not answer my specific question. The Adobe site gives me no reason to think it will not work, but I would prefer to have some first hand knowledge before buying Standard. I'd rather spend $450.00 and get features I will never use than spend $300.00 only to find it doesn't work. But if Standard will work, that would be preferable. I did ask this question in the Autodesk forums also but have yet to get a response from anyone using the exact same two products.

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Adobe Employee
April 28, 2014

There is no Acrobat Standard XI Trial.  The AutoDesk Filters are not included in Acrobat Standard.  That is an Acrobat Pro ONLY feature.

Known Participant
April 28, 2014

I understand there is no Standard trial as that would have solved my problem. Not sure what you are referring to when you say AutoCAD Filters. Can you clarify that?

Adobe Employee
April 28, 2014

Adobe Acrobat Pro XI has a set of AutoCAD filters that can convert the DWG files from AutoCAD 2012 to PDF.  If you have the trial for Adobe Acrobat Pro XI then you can test this for yoursellf.  If you are simply printing to PDF from the Adobe PDF Printer with AutoCAD, then you should know that custom page sizes are possible using the Adobe PDF Printer.  Again you can test this with the Adobe Acrobat Pro XI Trial's Adobe PDF Printer.

To know what is and isn't supported by the PDFMaker feature you can reference this document:  http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/compatible-web-browsers-pdfmaker-applications.html