I’m likely talking out of my ass here, but way back when the earth was green, I owned a Mac, and I recall we happy few could print either to hardcopy or to a printer file. So, even if we didn’t have access to an enormous plotter, we could set up the original file as if we did.
Then we’d send the file to some techie who did have access to a big printer and away they’d go. IIRC the printer files themselves were reasonably-sized.
I believe you need to have the printer driver on your computer to do this.
Some advice here:
http://forums.techguy.org/windows-xp/569221-print-file-then-what.html
I confess though I don’t know why ‘I can’t even distribute drawings at this scale by Internet in paper-less form.’ I must be missing something somewhere.
I’d also echo what QldSpitty said. If the intention is for folks to use the drawings to actually manufacture bits, I’d think first about what type of info the machines which make the bits need, as opposed to the info needed by the man who turns the thing that pushes the whatsits that spins the wheel that runs the machine that makes the bits that going to win the waaaaaaaaaar!
( … sorry … )
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