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Printing a drawing in AutoCAD has not changed much since the last release. For now, I will review the options while printing an EPS plot file to use with Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. The words print and plot are synonymous in AutoCAD, I will use them interchangeably through out the tutorial. To print a drawing in AutoCAD I can go to file, plot, I can also use the keyboard shortcut control key, I can also select the plot icon from the standard toolbar and new to AutoCAD 2007 I can right click on the active tab and select plot. In the plot dialog box I have a page set up and if I was printing from a layout I may see the name here and select it and go ahead and print. I'd like to note that you can also select previous plots so that if you're printing multiple sheets from an entire project you can go ahead and open them back to back and simply select previous plot and use the settings that you have been using for all of the sheets. For the printer plotter I have a pulse script level two printer currently set up, later in this tutorial I will show you how to create this printer, it is going to plot to a file, I need to create that EPS file to use later. For the paper size I have 8.5 by 11 selected, notice in the preview window it is also reflecting the paper size, 8.5 by 11. For the plot area I have windows selected, I typically plot the extents of the drawings as I am plotting my sheets from paper space or from a layout. Occasionally I may plot the display and very rarely do I use limits. Now I'd like to click here so that you can see the window that I am going to print and that's the area that should print to my file. For the plot offset I have it center the plot, plot to scale, very rarely will I fit to the paper, for architectural drawings you typically plot to a scale. I created a test plot style table and if I wanted to make any changes to it now I can go ahead and click on the edit icon and do that in the plot style table editor. Let me cancel out of that. For the sheeted view port options, these are fine for a 2D drawing, they shouldn't change. For the plot options I am plotting with plot styles and I do want to save changes to the layouts. If this box is not checked I will have to come back and select all of the changes once again, I can turn on plot stamp and then I can click on the plot stamp setting and I can have certain fields appear. I can also create user define fields, but for now I don't need to do that. So I will cancel and turn plot stamp off. Drawing orientation for the most part with architectural drawings is always landscape, every now and then you will use portrait and now I will preview the drawing and even though it is plotting to a file and not to a sheet of paper it is still showing the scale of the drawing relative to an 8.5 by 11 sheet. I can right click and exit to make additional changes or I can go ahead and plot, I have the pan and zoom options, I have the zoom window if I click on that I can zoom in right here, everything looks good. I can right click and zoom original. And now I will click on the plot icon. It would like to save this to a file, as you can see it has the EPS extension, I already have the file, so if I click on save it is going to ask me or warn me that I am going to override the plot file. This is very nice notice, sometimes you may want to do this and other times you may not. So I typically leave this box unchecked, I always like to be warned, so for now I will click on ok and that file has been created. And now I can do many things with an EPS file and you will see that later in the tutorial.