{"id":64300,"date":"2024-09-02T08:56:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T12:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/?p=64300"},"modified":"2024-09-03T18:59:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T22:59:19","slug":"printing-multiple-sheets-to-pdf-from-draftsight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/printing-multiple-sheets-to-pdf-from-draftsight\/","title":{"rendered":"Printing Multiple Sheets to PDF from DraftSight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/3d\/technology\/draftsight\/\">DraftSight<\/a> is a 2D and 3D CAD solution for architects, engineers, designers, and hobbyists.\u00a0 It includes design and annotation tools and an API for automating tasks. Here we discuss an oft-needed technique for printing multiple sheets to PDF, specifically generating PDF output from a multi-sheet DraftSight drawing to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A single PDF document with one sheet per page, or<\/li>\n<li>Multiple PDF documents, each of one sheet only<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>Before commencing printing to PDF, these steps will require that a print configuration, <strong>set to print to the built-in PDF printer<\/strong>, be made available.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/?p=63772&amp;preview=true\">this article<\/a>, for how to create that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_64307\" style=\"width: 1230px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64307\" class=\"wp-image-64307 size-large lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-17_11-50-30-1-1220x848.png\" alt=\"Printing Multiple Sheets to PDF from DraftSight\" width=\"1220\" height=\"848\" title=\"\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-64307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-64307 size-large lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-17_11-50-30-1-1220x848.png\" alt=\"Printing Multiple Sheets to PDF from DraftSight\" width=\"1220\" height=\"848\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-17_11-50-30-1-1220x848.png 1220w, https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-17_11-50-30-1-600x417.png 600w, https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-17_11-50-30-1-768x534.png 768w, https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-17_11-50-30-1.png 1462w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1220px) 100vw, 1220px\" \/><\/noscript> DraftSight Print settings for PDF<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Printing Multiple Sheets to PDF<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>ensure that one of the Sheet tabs is active.\u00a0 At the time this article was written, having the Model tab active will prevent us from selecting all sheets to be included in the output<\/li>\n<li><strong>Print &gt; Print configuration options &gt; Print configuration &gt; Select a print configuration<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Printer\/Plotter<\/strong>: ensure that PDF is the selected printer.\u00a0 The print configuration makes this setting and can be edited as needed.\u00a0 See our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/?p=63772&amp;preview=true\">How to Set Up DraftSight Print Configurations<\/a> article for how to do that.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Multiple Sheets &gt; Select Sheets&#8230;<\/strong> (this button is greyed out if we neglected to activate one of the Sheet tabs)\n<p><div id=\"attachment_64319\" style=\"width: 1230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64319\" class=\"wp-image-64319 size-large lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-17_12-10-27-2-1220x696.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1220\" height=\"696\" title=\"\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-64319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-64319 size-large lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-17_12-10-27-2-1220x696.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1220\" height=\"696\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-17_12-10-27-2-1220x696.png 1220w, https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-17_12-10-27-2-600x343.png 600w, https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-17_12-10-27-2-768x438.png 768w, https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-17_12-10-27-2.png 1305w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1220px) 100vw, 1220px\" \/><\/noscript> DraftSight sheet settings<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li>in the Select Sheets dialogue window, set the Print configuration for each sheet<\/li>\n<li>enable &#8220;Select all&#8221; to include all sheets in the PDF output<\/li>\n<li>enabling &#8220;Create a single PDF document with one sheet per page&#8221; does exactly that, while leaving this option disabled produces a set of single-sheet PDFs<\/li>\n<li>choose OK in Select Sheets<\/li>\n<li>choose OK in Print<\/li>\n<li>browse to the desired output folder, enter a filename, and click Save<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>More DraftSight Tips<\/h3>\n<p>For more DraftSight tips and tricks, check out our live online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/3d\/people\/training\/draftsight-essentials\/\">DraftSight Essentials training course<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is a DraftSight certification exam to test your skills and earn a certificate that proves that you can use the tools efficiently. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/how-to-get-draftsight-certification\/\">How to get DraftSight Certification (javelin-tech.com)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we discuss an oft-needed technique in DraftSight, Printing Multiple Sheets to PDF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":63229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[33935,33934,656],"class_list":["post-64300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-draftsight","tag-draftsight-pdf","tag-draftsight-print","tag-pdf"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64300"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65017,"href":"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64300\/revisions\/65017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.javelin-tech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}