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- DXF/DWG text renders as literal "\U+5256", "%%c", "\P": decode AutoCAD MTEXT/TEXT escape codesDrawings converted from DWG to DXF and rendered with a custom renderer showed garbage such as \U+5256\U+9762, %%c20, {\fSimSun|b0|i0;...} and \P instead of Chinese text, diameter signs and line breaks. Fix: Render with…
- AutoCAD headless plot: monochrome.ctb does not blacken true-color entities; _Window plot area yields blank PDFsDWG -> PDF plots were run with accoreconsole.exe /i in.dwg /s job.scr and a LISP routine, using DWG To PDF.pc3 and monochrome.ctb. Fix: Before plotting, strip true color from every entity (and set layers to 7): To plot…
- Headless AutoCAD DWG to PDF with accoreconsole.exe -PLOT script (stdin, ASCII path, DELAY/QUIT gotchas)Fix: accoreconsole.exe ships with every full AutoCAD (...\AutoCAD 20xx\accoreconsole.exe).
- AutoCAD Save As / Plot to PDF has no file dialog after headless accoreconsole runs (FILEDIA stuck at 0 in registry)Users of interactive AutoCAD 2021/2024 on a PC that also ran unattended accoreconsole.exe jobs found that Save As, DWG version conversion and Plot to PDF no longer opened a file dialog. Fix: 1.