Generating PDF from drawing files

Hi Support Team,
I am using the Acrobat XI Pro to generating PDFs directly from AutoCAD electrical Drawing files (".dwg"). AutoCAD electrical software is not installed on this computer.
I am having the following two problems:
1, For some drawings, the generated PDF are not scaled to fit on one page. They are split into two pages and not displayed properly.
2, In the AutoCAD electrical drawing, we use different line colors for certain application, at the moment the generated PDFs are also colorful. Is there a way I can get black and white (not gray scaled, because it's not clear) color in the PDF files?
Kind Regards,
Andy

I am not sure, but believe that AutoDesk must be installed on your system to do the conversion. You might refer to http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/X/pro/using/WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7f73.w .html which suggests that the application may open for the conversion. You might wait around for someone else who can confirm or deny this conclusion, but my guess is you have to have AutoDesk to do the conversion.

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