(Portions of this article apply to MicroStation V8i)

Setting aside the more sophisticated capabilities of ProjectWise InterPlot design scripts and ProjectWise title blocks, there are four main techniques in standard MicroStation to replace design file text at print time. Common reasons for wanting to do this include placing the user name, the design file name, the current date & time, the date & time the design…

(This topic applies to MicroStation 8.9 and later)

Here's the scenario: I start with a design file that contains a single, relatively dense Excel spreadsheet that fills roughly 98% of an ANSI E sheet. I print this same sheet in MicroStation 8.5 and 8.9, in both cases using the pdf.plt printer driver configuration file delivered with MicroStation 8.5, maximized to ANSI E and printing in non-rasterized mode.