creating color pdf's

Unknown said:

thanks for the reply... is what you are saying also possible by level filters???

Not sure what you mean by this. We have level libraries that we reference to level manager. That way the levels can not be deleted or permanently changed in our working files. This allows us to modify color, weight, linestyle (bylevel or overrides). Then if we want the levels set back to original we can just update the levels in LM. A lot of times I want to print everything black except certain elements I may have questions about so I just set all colors to 0 in LM except those elements make my print (whether pdf or directly to the printer) and then update my levels to reset the file. You can not do this sort of "custom" on the fly set up with pen tables in that short of a time span.

Mike

mike,

you actually anwered the statement i made by your answer. what you explained is what i was trying to say/describe. next time i do a check plot i will try the directions you just provided & see how that works-timewise.

thank you.... you have helped!

This works.  On Step 8 I had to change the level color to 255,0,0.  Also, make sure your lines, text, and cells are Color by Level and turn off Color Overrides.

It's 2023. This is still the best solution.

Once setup, I wish we could all agree turning ON/OFF the View Attributes > Level Overrides is the best approach to print that layer level with or without colors.

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