Hi there,
I'm trying to plot to JPEG format. We often use drawings in powerpoint presentations and I end up converting a PDF in photoshop to a JPEG - This is not fun. So, is it possible to print straight to JPEG rather than PDF?
I've tried loading the Workspace\system\plotdrv\jpeg.plt file but it says the printer configuration is invalid.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Matt
I haven't had a chance to use v8i yet, so I would be interested to see how it works there. Andrew is correct about modifying the line weights, which is what I did to my emf2word version of the driver. I tweaked the line weights in this driver as well as in my ps2pdf drivers so that their plotted outputs from Word and Acrobat were indistinguishable from my original Microstation IPLOT output.
Jim
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).
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Jim: I've been using my emf2word.plt very successfully for almost ten years now with various versions of MicroStation.
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
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.