[V8i] Linked Excel to PDF

Are you running the most current version for your video card driver?  If you select "Rasterized" at printing time does the quality improve?  Would it be possible for you to post the original pdf file?

Ed,

I am indeed up to date on the video card. The "Rasterized" option doesn't change the spreadsheet at all (and it makes the PDF huge). I will attempt to attach the PDF again, but I am not exactly sure how to do it so it doesn't add it with the viewer thing it did on my original post.

Of note... if I try to print the entire sheet with the spreadsheet on it, it looks like junk. But, if I place a small fence around the table itself and include a little bit outside the table, the spreadsheet looks fine in the PDF. Something to that?

Here is a pdf from MicroStation V8i SS3 update 2.  I opened the .pdf directly in MicroStation and plotted to 11x17 I also plotted the original .pdf to paper from Acrobat and the quality did not diminish.  Let me suggest you try attaching the .pdf as a raster attachment as opposed to a link.

I think I am confused. What I am trying to do is to attach a spreadsheet to my sheet model within MicroStation (Paste Special > Linked Excel) and then print this to an 11"x17" PDF (which would be a 1:1 scale) using the Bentley PDF printer driver. I am using MS V8i SS3 (8.11.9.578). What I attached in my last post was what the PDF looks like after I print it to PDF (notice the table with tiny text).

Does this clarify my issue?

It appears that for some reason the contents of the spreadsheet are being rescaled when they are being printed.  Could you contact me via private email and I will get back to you.

Ken;

I have opened SR 7000232386 to track this issue.  It appears we are having an issue with how MicroStation is handling the Excel data.  If we zoom in on the spreadsheet data, the data begins to shrink and throws the justification off.  It eventually looks good, but then you are really zoomed in.  We will update this forum as well as the Service Request.

A Defect with MicroStation graphics group has been filed to bring this issue to the attention of our developers.  We are sorry for the inconvenience.

A Defect with MicroStation graphics group has been filed to bring this issue to the attention of our developers.  We are sorry for the inconvenience.

I do this all the time and with very large spread sheets the trick is to change / increase the default  resolution of the pdf its a setting in the pdf.pltcfg file i suggest you copy it and rename it like 600dpiPDF.pltcfg etc to suit

I have several for our users

1200DPI_pdf.pltcfg

300DPI_pdf.pltcfg

LayeredPDF300DPI.pltcfg

etc

Even ones with custom pentables preattached

600pdfWYSIWYG ( this one is for use with aerial photography backgrounds)

600pdf YELLOW FIX ( this one changes any yellow to dirty gold colour 20 so you can see it on paper)

These help to standardise printing amognst users especially if you document them in you cad standards manuals...