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Paper Sizes in a Windows Printer Driver Configuration File
Andrew Edge
One of the most common, perhaps the most common, complaint about printing to a Windows printer driver from MicroStation is the lack of control over paper sizes. Whereas a Bentley printer driver allows you to define as many paper sizes as you need, and…
over 15 years ago
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A Step-by-Step Guide for Advanced Pen Table Text Substitution
Andrew Edge
The following is concise step-by-step guide to using named expressions with pen table text substitution to access print definition properties that are not available via other means. This includes separate print size X and Y values, and the print rotation…
over 14 years ago
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Pen Table Priority and Troubleshooting Priority Problems
Andrew Edge
(This article applies to MicroStation 8.9.4.73 and later.) One of the most significant new features in the MicroStation V8 XM Edition was the introduction of a true 3D graphics display system. This allowed intersecting and overlapping 3D geometry…
over 15 years ago
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Tutorial: Automating Printing through Print Styles
Andrew Edge
(This article applies to MicroStation V8i) In this tutorial, I'm going to demonstrate how to automate some common tasks in both Print Organizer and the single-Print dialog using print styles. This is intended primarily for CAD administrators.…
over 15 years ago
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Printing Rasterized OLE Objects: Performance and PDF File Size
Andrew Edge
(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…
over 15 years ago
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Print Organizer vs. Batch Print
Andrew Edge
What is Print Organizer? Print Organizer is the new print set utility delivered with MicroStation V8i. It is intended to improve upon and replace the previous MicroStation print set utility, Batch Print. The best source of information about…
over 14 years ago
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Rasterized versus Non-Rasterized Printing
Andrew Edge
One of the first questions a newcomer to the MicroStation V8 XM Print dialog asks, if they notice it at all, is "what is that Rasterized checkbox for?" It's not obvious at first, but the Rasterized checkbox is one of the most important controls on the…
over 15 years ago
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Print Text Substitution
Andrew Edge
(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…
over 15 years ago
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Printer Driver Configurations: .pltcfg versus .plt
Andrew Edge
In this post I'm going to try to answer some of the commonly asked questions concerning the .pltcfg files that were introduced in MicroStation 8.9.3, and the removal of the default .plt files in MicroStation 8.11. To begin with, it's important…
over 15 years ago
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Printing Great Things
Tutorial: Including the Date in Print Output File Names
Andrew Edge
(This topic applies to MicroStation 8.11 and later.) In this article I am going to present a step-by-step approach to including the current date (in the format dd-MM-yy) as a prefix in print output file names produced by both Print Organizer and…
over 15 years ago
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