I am a new user and have a problem exporting PDFs for client. I started a new drawing by importing a DWG file and selected 1 unit = 1mm. Once finished altering the drawing I added an A3 title block, it prints out fine on A3 paper but if I export the drawing as a PDF the file comes out as A4 and doesn't fill the page. How do I make the PDF exactly like what is on screen, A3 or larger?

Hi Scott,

Export to PDF is limited in functionality and restricted to, for example, Portrait layout on A4/Letter page size.

The best solution is to Print to PDF; this supports any page size, orientation and other advanced settings and options.

If you are running Windows 10, this includes a printer called “Microsoft Print to PDF”.

Alternatively you can use third party PDFWriters.  There are many available, and one good example can be downloaded for free at www.cutepdf.com.  Again, this behaves like a printer so you just Print to PDF and can use CutePDF's settings to select page size, orientation and quality settings.

PDFWriters have the added advantage that, as 'printers', they can be used to create multi-page PDFs with a page for each drawing, where Export to PDF only operates on the current drawing, creating a single page PDF for the current drawing only..

I hope this is helpful.

Kind regards,
Rob Robinson
Stardraw.com