Working with PDF Files

If you’re using a computer as part of your daily work activity, you will encounter a PDF document. PDFs have become an part of everyday life, so it’s no surprise that AutoCAD offers a fair amount of support for PDFs.

In the following sections, you’ll learn how to import a PDF document into AutoCAD and how you can control various properties of the document such as fading and the ability to snap to objects in the PDF.

Importing a PDF

To import a PDF, you use a method similar to the one you used earlier to import an image file. In fact, you could perform all of the steps in the exercise in the section “Importing a Raster Image” earlier in this chapter using a PDF file instead of the raster1.jpg file. You just need to know how to set up the Select Reference File dialog box to allow you to locate PDFs.