I am experiencing trouble print to a PDF from Autocad

When I attempt to print my Autocad drawing to a PDF file, I either get a partial or no image in the PDF. Problem seems to be getting worse with time, maybe just my aggravation kicking in.

Autocad is always going to have problems with pdfs files because they are based on different models. Autocad is based on output to plotters (I discovered this in college, when my carefully reconstructed grateful dead printed out withou any fills) Autodesk and Adobe have a different theory when it comes to stokes and fills and curves. I used to get a lot of images in from engineers in Autocad (theses days they just steal jpgs off of the internet) I would open the Autocad images in Illustrator and fix them up, cleaning up redundant lines, fixing stroke weights of 0 or ridiculously low numbers, replacing 40 sided figures with circles to get to an image that would print to PostScript.
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