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Now we've already looked at how we can export here to a PDF on the Output Tab. Now again, that feature is only available in AutoCAD 2010. You can also, in your Page Setup Manager, plot out to a PDF. Now, we set that up previously. So as you can see, there's A3 Landscape PDF. If I double click on that now, my current layout, GA Plan, is now using A3 Landscape PDF. So when I go to plot that particular layout now, it'll plot out to a PDF file. So if I click on Plot now, you can see there DWG to PDF. So if I now OK that, it'll prompt me now where do I want to save that PDF file? So I've got 12 viewing PDF files, GA Plan is the layout.pdf. So let's just save that in my Drawings Folder there. So that's now saved and the good thing is Windows automatically picks up that that is a PDF file. So the plot and publish job is complete there. I can close that and if I just look now, there's my Acrobat Reader that's kicked in automatically because Windows sees a PDF file there and automatically opens the application associated with PDF files. Now, I'm just going to maximize that now and look at it and see how it works in comparison to a DWF. I can still look around the drawing. Look here. If I click here now I can move around, I can zoom in and zoom our or can I? I can't. It's not as functional as a DWF Viewer or Autodesk Design Review. I've got my layers there for example. I can look at the pages there. It's that page there and if I double click in here, I can actually move around using the wheel let's say. I can pan but that's it. There's not a lot else to it. If I zoom out, I can make it smaller and bigger like so. If I wanted to plot it, File and Print. I've got some settings there that I can use but it's not as functional as a DWF. It all depends on what you want to do. So if you're using PDF as your standard file format, you would pump it out like this as a PDF file. I would suggest that you go down the DWF route. It's a lot more functional, as you can see. I've only got Acrobat Reader. I haven't got the full Acrobat Pro. That costs quite a lot of money. The Autodesk software doesn't cost you a penny. It's all free. Acrobat Reader is free but as you can see, functionality is limited. Use the DWF and all of the software that you need for full functionality does not have any cost associated with it at all, apart from the investment in time to perhaps spend half a day to learn how to use it. So as you can see there, that's how you open up your files, your PDF files using Acrobat Reader. So I'll just close that now and we're back to our AutoCAD and our DWG file.