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plotmaker command line parameters?

Anonymous
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Hello.

I have set up a layout file which I would like all my drafters to use. They just export pmk's with the correct names. This works great but at the moment the drafters all have to click print in plotmaker. I'm hoping there may be an undocumented command line parameter for plotmaker so I can print a layout file without user interaction.

Does anybody know of such options?
If this is available in 9, can you also pass a pdf filename and save to pdf on the command line?

We are currently using ArchiCAD 7, plotmaker 2.3 but will be upgrading to the version 9 in a few weeks.

Thanks,
Adam
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Ben Odonnell
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Adam,
There is no command line in Plotmaker. As far as automating the process, there is publisher.

You can publish to any file type, printer or plotter, that Plotmaker supports, even to PDF. One great thing about publishing to PDF is that you can merge a whole subset to one PDF document.

Cheers.
Ben
Ben O'Donnell
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Anonymous
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Ben wrote:
One great thing about publishing to PDF is that you can merge a whole subset to one PDF document.
I'm either overworked or getting dumber, but I couldn't figure out how to get the Publisher to publish to a single PDF file with all the layouts in it. There used to be a checkbox in PM3.1. What am I missing?