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- From: binkley@dfrf.nasa.gov (Rob -Not from Bloom County- Binkley, EIT)
- Subject: Re: How to print directly AUTOCAD draw via the spooler (Unix) ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.012649.22672@news.dfrf.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:26:49 GMT
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- Jari Hiltunen (jjhi@vipunen.hut.fi) wrote:
- : In article <rouyn.727718884@tdsb-s> rouyn@mais.hydro.qc.ca (Usagers Rouyn) writes:
- : >Hi, i'm using Autocad R12
- : >on a SUN SYSTEM (670 MP), and my users are on IPX Sparc stations.
- : >How can i send the ploting to the spooler of my unix system ?
- : >I want that my draw beeing printed on the QMS 810 of my lan.
- :
- : Read what the AutoCAD Installation Guide says about ACADPLCMD.
- :
-
- OK...I know about the ACADPLCMD. It works great...NOT!
- In AutoCAD r12 you can configure (about) 29 printer/plotter
- configurations. OK...so I am on a moderate network which
- includes a few dozen Macs (using ACAD), PCs (using the
- Novell-aware (ha!) ACAD), and 2 dozen Sun Sparcstations
- (using ACAD). Everyone is networked together via a
- Novell 3.11 server w/NFS.
-
- I have access via the network to:
- 8 DIFFERENT Postscript printers (A size)
- 2 DIFFERENT Postscript printers (B size)
- 2 DIFFERENT HPGL Plotters (D size)
- 2 DIFFERENT HPGL Plotters (B size)
- 2 DIFFERENT Calcomp Drawingmasters (D size)
- 1 Calcomp Electrostatic Plotter (E size)
- 6 HP LaserJets (series 2, 3, 4) (A size)
- 1 Seiko Color Thermal Printer (Color Postscript) (A size)
-
- So, each user (6 Hard core draftsmen and 30 ocassional users) prints/plots
- to a variety of output devices. How am I to configure AutoCAD to select among
- each of these devices and plot to it? I DON'T KNOW! You can store the
- (29?) configurations, but you can't tell it HOW TO OUTPUT TO THAT DEVICE!
- I shouldn't have to select something outside of AutoCAD to print. I shouldn't
- have to do anything but select among the available printers configured
- in that copy of AutoCAD from WITHIN AutoCAD. Am i missing something?
-
- Oh, by the way. How come the Network copy of AutoCAD for the PC doesn't
- know about NOVELL print queues?
-
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