Publish Layouts to PDF using COM

<?xml encoding=”UTF-8″>By Madhukar Moogala

We don’t have a direct API to publish multiple layouts in to single PDF document, we may have to rely some hard code work

In this blog I will show how to create a simple DSD, and use this DSD file to execute publish command.

class DSDObject
{
public DSDObject()
{
}
public string DWG { get; set; }
public string Layout { get; set; }
public string Setup { get; set; }
public string dwgName { get; set; }
public String createDSDEntry()
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.Append("[DWF6Sheet:" + this.dwgName + "-" + Layout + "]");
sb.AppendLine();
sb.Append("DWG=" + DWG);
sb.AppendLine();
sb.Append("Layout=" + Layout);
sb.AppendLine();
sb.Append("Setup=");
return sb.ToString();
}
}
public static void TP()
{
Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop.AcadApplication acadCOMApp;
acadCOMApp = (Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop.AcadApplication)Application.AcadApplication;
AcadDocument acadDoc = acadCOMApp.ActiveDocument;
string drawingName = acadDoc.Name;
string drawingPath = acadDoc.FullName;
List entries = new List();
foreach(AcadLayout alayout in acadDoc.Layouts)
{
DSDObject dsdObj = new DSDObject();
dsdObj.DWG = drawingPath;
dsdObj.dwgName = drawingName;
dsdObj.Layout = alayout.Name;
dsdObj.Setup = "";
entries.Add(dsdObj.createDSDEntry());
}
StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter("c:\trash\testDSD.dsd");
writer.WriteLine("[DWF6Version]");
writer.WriteLine("Ver=1");
foreach(string entry in entries)
{
writer.WriteLine(entry);
}
writer.WriteLine("[Target]");
writer.WriteLine("Type=6");
writer.WriteLine("DWF=C:\Users\moogalm\Desktop\Kitchens.pdf");
writer.WriteLine("OUT=C:\Users\moogalm\Desktop\");
writer.WriteLine("PWD=");
writer.Close();
FileInfo fi = new FileInfo("C:\Trash\testDSD.dsd");
if (fi.Length > 0)
{
acadDoc.SetVariable("FILEDIA", 0);
acadDoc.SendCommand("-PUBLISH " + fi.FullName +"n");
}
}