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Regarding Dcad 11:
1) I am pretty new at emailing my drawings. I save each page as a pdf.
But a client recently asked me to put them all into one pdf.

I had to assemble the pdfs in other software. Can Dcad 11 save
several pages in one pdf?

No. PDFill has a merge facility. Maybe that is what you are using

And
2) I imported a jpg of the surveyor's site plan - very impressive -

Can't Dcad let you draw on a jpg?

You can draw over a bitmap. You may find pressing U or ESC will fix this by refresh The layer order can be changed in the display menu. Note also that you can tick the "print bitmap and fills first" item in the pen table - which trumps everything. You can also turn bitmaps off while drawing.

Getting a JPG from a surveyor seems a pretty slack-arsed way to go anyway, and he must have been wondering what that was all about. You might try asking for a DWG file, which will allow you to work in a proper and professional manner, something you should find very impressive indeed, and will absolve you from any bitmap angst as well.

Bitmaps have cosmetic value, but that is all.

Regarding Dcad 11:
1) I am pretty new at emailing my drawings. I save each page as a pdf.
But a client recently asked me to put them all into one pdf.

I had to assemble the pdfs in other software. Can Dcad 11 save
several pages in one pdf?

And
2) I imported a jpg of the surveyor's site plan - very impressive -
but when I went to draw the building on that site plan, even
after I move the site plan to the "back", the line work doesn't
show in the print preview window, nor in the pdf. Lines show
on the monitor, but not for saving or printing. For what it's worth,
the lines are on a separate layer than the jpg, and not locked.

Can't Dcad let you draw on a jpg?

Thanks

Thanks, Nick

I'm not familiar with PDFILL, it may work better than
what I have used.
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I'll try your "U" and "ESC" suggestions. I've already
tried putting the jpg back, in layer order. But when
I go to print, what I draw is not included.
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Re:
"slack-arsed"-ness.
It was a xerox of an old survey which the client gave me.

It was just a legal-size copy of part of the original page,
which did not contain the surveyor's name.

So I don't think I'll be appologizing to any strangers
for how I resolved that situation.

Thanks for the suggestions.

There's a free utility "PDFill PDF Tools" that I've used for years to do exactly what you're describing.

I "print" each page of the construction or design docs as I want it to appear using PDFill's virtual-printer, then use the "bind"-function in "Tools" to combine them into one master .pdf-file. If you save each page in alphanumeric-order, they'll queue-up in the correct drawing order.

a001
a002
a003a
a003b, etc...

You might have to cheat the files names, but they don't have to be the same names as the pages...it's just for queuing. And you can always manually nudge the queue-order as-needed before you bind. If you have to revise a page or re-plot it, you can just save it overwriting the old file...then re-bind the entire set with the same file-name, or a newer file-name if necessary.

It also has useful .pdf-file features, converts .jpgs to .pdfs and back, etc...

Plus as .PDF they can be e-mailed or re-printed at a different-scale/paper-size without their appearance changing.

In regards to the bitmap - make sure that you insert it on a separate layer, and that that layer is as close to the top of your layer list as possible - and then draw your lines/text on a layer that comes **AFTER** the layer that you inserted your bitmap on.

In regards to combining the PDF's - it's best to use another program (like PDFILL, but I'm partial to CutePDF) to combine the files.