PDF from AutoCAD

I am plotting several autocad drawings using Acrobat 7
Professional. The drawing looks fine and the preview looks fine but
when the final pdf file is created I don't get what the preview
showed. In the autocad drawing where there are straight lines on
top of straight lines one will be straight and the other is curved.
These are drawings created by EaglePoint design software and the
double lines are unavoidable. Why is one line coming out curved?
Thanks,
Eric Black

You'll need to open or reimport the OLE object and reinsert it into the open AutoCAD (2009) document.  Then it should print.  It just happend to me.
That was one work-around.
The other was to open the document in AutoCAD LT and then it printed to PDF just fine, without reinsertion of the OLE object.
I hope that helps.
Lauren

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