It would appear that if files referenced into a dynamic view master file have pointclouds attached which are turned on, even if they are in a level which is turned off will only print as a tiled raster.
When you are working with a large number of active files that are referring to a number of pointclouds this starts to get very frustrating, because there is a repeated process of going through each file to check pointclouds are turned off to enable printing to work correctly. It stops the printing workflow being automated.
I suppose this is a CR - perhaps at Display Attributes level or at print dialog level it would be really useful to be able to toggle pointclouds off or ignore them to allow vector printing.
I guess another alternative would be for referenced pointclouds to respect nesting depth. This would allow the DV workflow that I believe most people use, which is to reference in with no nesting to have complete control over what ends up in the DV.
Hi Rob,
Apply a print style with rasterize Off:
Just untick the Rasterized box to force it to off.
Just tested this with a sample POD file.
Regards
Marc
I'll check this out this morning. Useful to know there is a fix, but why is this option greyed out in the print dialog?
Could be greyed out by a setting in the print driver or a default print style if you have one. Edit the Printer Driver Configuration, look in the General tab, what is Default Output Mode set to? Setting it to Force Non-rasterized will turn off rasterization and grey out the option in the print dialog.
However it is more flexible to use print styles for output settings such as this that are common to all printer drivers, a non-rasterize print style can be applied to any of your print drivers, this saves having several PDF drivers with varying output settings.
Some things of course can only be set in the print driver, the actual Driver Properties are specific to each printer.