There's a round about way to go about it that works great, you have to
create a new .pc3 for your plotter and select the "Plot to File"
option. Then you have to use this plotter config whenever you want to
plot to file.
To do this, in Autocad 2006 type "plottermanager" at the command line
to bring up an explorer window listing all of your plotter .pc3
configs.
Copy the config of the plotter you want to use whenever you want to
plot to file.
Double click on the new config, and bring up the Plotter Configuration
Editor for it.
Click the "Ports" tab at the top.
Select the "Plot to File" option under the "Ports" tab.
Click "OK" to save the configuration.
you normally do, except select this new plotter configuration as the
plotter to use... should save everything to file. In the publish
command, under publish options, there's also a place to select the file
path to save the .plt files too.
Hope this works
-Chris
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