Mathieu St-Pierre: In MicroStation V8i, there is an option to set the PDF driver's property Enable Measuring to ON. This property can be set in the Printer Driver Configuration dialog (Print dialog->File->Edit Printer Driver Configuration…

You might be interested in this blog article about rasterized printing. I don't have a ready explanation for your results. I agree -- the final print size matters, the print scale should not. There must be some other difference, perhaps in the…

There is no functional difference between pen color maps defined in a pen table vs. those defined in a printer driver configuration file. If both are defined, the pen color maps in the pen table take priority. The .pltcfg color maps were introduced long…

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 Solution

I have a similar problem in that some filled fonts do not plot correctly (TR 8000493285) all tested fonts were Bentley fonts, Font 43 (Low res filled), Font 4 (font0004) and Font 2 (SchoolBook Vertical) These Fonts look good on the screen…

I have the same problem when printing to pdf a dgn file with a dwg reference in it. I have tried printing via the plt driver in XM and also printing via the std Acrobat driver in Adobe. Whne plotting via XM pdf driver the same pdf file is some 50 MBytes…

Using DGN data in Office applications Matt: We often use drawings in presentations and I end up converting a PDF in photoshop to a JPEG If you want to use high-quality vector drawings in Office applications, whether for printing or projection…

Brian, Have you got a copy of Acrobat Pro? It's relatively simple to get a multi-page PDF file set up with bookmarks if you do. The key is to know that when you combine files with Acrobat, it automatically turns each of the single…

Johnny, which version of MicroStation and Adobe Acrobat do you use? As Bear already suggested in MicroStation V8 the original Bentley pdf.plt or pdf.pltcfg will give you complete control and best results. To control print output…