Trying to use the priority setting in a pen table to send grey elements behind black ones (to make up for the lack of a "lines merge" setting).
Help states that unprioritized elements will always print before prioritized elements. So I left my pen table section that turns stuff grey unprioritized. All other sections in the pen table have a priority of 1.
Obviously it's not working.
What am I doing wrong?
I'm using a pdf driver (more or less the stock one that ships with the software).
Thanks.
I either assign all of the sections a priority or none of them. I have had problems just like yours in the past where one of the sections wouln't have a priority and I would have problems with the whole pen table.
Assign it a priority of 0 and see if that works.
How about we try a different approach try and fix the data rather than fix the printing..
Try this with the power selector select all then using the power selector deselect by colour grey so all grey objects are now not selected.
Now from the edit menu choose bring to front and data point in a view and deselect the selection the effect will be to send all gey objects to the back.
Now if the is works for you and it prints correctly repeat the process while you have the macro recorder turned on.
you should now be able to create a script that runs the macro and executes the plot routine but waits for you to place a fence or select a boundary to plot by.
once you have this set you can fix all your files prior to printing by batch processor or puting the script into a pull down or function key for printing..
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