... see where i can trim a little length out before sorting baseboard shapes and sizes before sending the whole lot as a pdf to a plotter. Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions Steve posted: 28 Feb 2012 09:41 from: Martin Wynne ESJAYTEE wrote: Returning to this theme.... is it possible to export to PDF with the background shape included? Hi Steve, Assuming you are using TDV? To include picture shapes in the PDF export you must tick this box on the PDF pages dialog: 2_280427_150000000.png n.b. If you do this you should not create PDF files containing more than a handful of pages, otherwise the PDF file will be massively inflated in size. It's likely that your PDF Reader program (Nitro Reader recommended) will not be able to handle it. Instead, export your track plan as a series of PDF files, each containing only a few pages. Please note also that the output will contain only the pages on which there are track templates. If you want to include other pages, you must ...