How to plot to JPEG?

Thanks to Jon for pointing out my emf2word.plt  plot driver posted over at AskInga.  I've been using it very successfully for almost ten years now with various versions of Microstation. We routinely use it for putting readable, vector copies of full E-size engineering drawings into Word documents or Powerpoint slide presentations without the drawback of large file sizes or unreadable text that you get with raster images. Matthew, I hope this will help in your situation.

 Jim

Thanks to Jon for pointing out my emf2word.plt  plot driver posted over at AskInga.  I've been using it very successfully for almost ten years now with various versions of Microstation. We routinely use it for putting readable, vector copies of full E-size engineering drawings into Word documents or Powerpoint slide presentations without the drawback of large file sizes or unreadable text that you get with raster images. Matthew, I hope this will help in your situation.

 Jim

Jim:

I've been using my emf2word.plt  very successfully for almost ten years now with various versions of MicroStation.

Have you modified it for use as a .pltcfg file in the V8i generation?

Regards, Jon Summers
LA Solutions

FWIW, the wiki article that Jon mentions points out that the OleServe command mentioned previously in this article in fact uses the printer driver to generate its results.

For what it's worth, an "EMF" printer driver is just a slightly customized printer.plt (or printer.pltcfg).  When a Windows printer driver configuration is selected, there's a choice on the Print dialog about whether to send the plot to the printer (via the Windows spooler), create a plot file on disk, or create a Windows metafile (an "EMF" file).  You can make the metafile choice the default by editing printer.pltcfg in the Printer Driver Configuration Editor and changing the "Default Create Metafile" property.  For printer.plt, the "model" record must be changed as described in the documentation.

When editing the printer driver configuration to create Windows metafiles by default, you may also want to set the default print file extension to "emf".  Depending on your usage, you may also want to adjust the weight-to-print-width mappings ("weight_strokes" in a .plt file).