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Promis.e Project Publisher Pen Table Support

Robert Henderson
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Does or will the Promis.e Project Publisher support pen tables? I don’t see the option and currently to use our pen table we need to plot using the “Plot” tool in the Plot & Publish task or by going to the Project Manager, selecting File and selecting Plot Page(s). This function seems to support pen tables but Project Publisher doesn’t.

The benefits of using the Project Publisher over the Plot tool is obvious because of the enhanced features in the format such as Hyperlinks and Display sticky notes.

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    Do you have the possibility to choose printer driver when sending to printer? If yes, it might help to create a copy of your printer driver and set "Default pen table file name" option in it.

    BTW, my Project Publisher window looks different than showed in promis.e Help. There is no "Send to printer" option, as well as "Drawing files". See image (captured from SS8 version). I can create only PDFs. Do you have all the options?

    Regards
    Wojtek

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    Best regards, Wojtek

    SW: Promis.e 08.11.13.96/23.00.00.46

  • 0 Offline in reply to WojtekM
    The project publisher was modified to eliminate the output to .dwg or .dgn and level management. This is done through the standard Microstation tools now. So the project publisher has been simplified and I'll guess and say the help tools haven't been updated properly.

    The publisher uses the default printer driver located here C:\ProgramData\Bentley\promise V8i\WorkSpace\System\pltcfg\printer.pltcfg.

    There doesn’t seem to be an option selecting the driver within the Promis.e project publisher, but you could change that printer.pltcfg file to match a client’s pentable through the edit printer driver configuration options. Technically, you could sub in different “printer.pltcfg” files for any given client but that would require a little finesse on the part of the user making the prints.

    In our near future, we’d probably just set up renditions within ProjectWise for printing automation which uses MicroStations functionality. Project publisher adds “neat” things that could be shown to a client for us, but at the end of the day, it isn’t our current deliverable.

    Bentley Software utilized: Promis.e v.08.11.13.57, ProjectWise v.10.00.01.67, MicroStation v.08.11.09.536

  • 0 Offline in reply to Sofia Aziz

    Hi Sofia. I know of no method of making Project Publisher use a pen table. I've added your company to the requestor list for enhancement TFS 7070 for this ability.

    To make sure the enhancement request is complete, what do they want to use the pen table for? Just changing colors?



  • 0 Offline in reply to Matt_P

    Hi Matt,

    sorry for the late reply, Well, they want their terminal block to be in colours when printed to pdf while the schematics etc. is in b&w. 

  • +1 Offline in reply to Matt_P

    Hi Matt

    finally I have come up with a workaround that works for me in SS8.

    I have noticed, that Project Publisher just opens the Print window for each page.

    So it's enought to set variable MS_PLOTDLG_DEF_PENTABLE=path_to_your_pentable. In that case, a pentable is loaded every time Print dialog is opened. Also when Project Publisher opens it.

    It's probably not possible  to solve it through pltcfg file, because I have also noticed that Project Publisher seems to create temporary one for each page (every page has a diffrent-and-very-long name in Print window title bar).

    After project is published, you need to remove the variable.

    Regards,

    Wojtek

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    Best regards, Wojtek

    SW: Promis.e 08.11.13.96/23.00.00.46

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  • 0 Offline in reply to WojtekM

    Brilliant! Good find Wojtek. Thank you, I will create an article describing this solution.



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