Good afternoon,
I have a somewhat similar issue when printing linked Excel spreadsheets, but never this bad. I have an Excel spreadsheet linked in this file, and when I zoom in and out of the view, it will look strange for a second, and then update and will look correct. When I print the sheet however, it is unreadable (see attached). I am using a version of the Bentley PDF printer driver and trying to print a 11x17 sheet model to a 11 x 17 PDF (1:1 scale). Any idea why this is happening? I tried adjusting the raster quality, but it didn't do anything.
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...
Lorys
Started msnt work 1990 - Retired Nov 2022 ( oh boy am I old )
But was long time user V8iss10 (8.11.09.919) dabbler CE update 16 (10.16.00.80)
MicroStation user since 1990 Melbourne Australia.click link to PM me
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.
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.
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.
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?