Morning, Hope someone will be able to assist? I have to print a 3D pdf which I have no trouble doing, but the pdf comes out a lot darker than what is displayed in Microstation. What I have tried in order to get it to display lighter – Had my Default Lighting selected and set it to the max. In my Light Manager I set my Lux under Ambient brighter. Set the Brightness of my images to 50, in order for them to display brighter once I drape them onto my surface. Microstation on left and pdf on right. I have played with the settings in Adobe selected varies forms of lighting, but nothing comes close to what is shown in MS. Thanks

3D PDF prints to dark

Morning,

Hope someone will be able to assist? I have to print a 3D pdf which I have no trouble doing, but the pdf comes out a lot darker than what is displayed in Microstation.

What I have tried in order to get it to display lighter –

Had my Default Lighting selected and set it to the max.
In my Light Manager I set my Lux under Ambient brighter.
Set the Brightness of my images to 50, in order for them to display brighter once I drape them onto my surface.

Microstation on left and pdf on right. I have played with the settings in Adobe selected varies forms of lighting, but nothing comes close to what is shown in MS.

Thanks

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0 Offline Lorys Fri, Jun 5 2015 3:04 AM
just asking are you using

printer.pltcfg to print to a windows pdf virtual printer or are you using pdf.pltcfg ?

Are you using any pentables?

Are you telling MS plot dialog to rasterise ( tick box)

Your ms view is it a rendered view?

What version of V8i are you using ?

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0 Offline Lorys Fri, Jun 5 2015 3:04 AM
just asking are you using

printer.pltcfg to print to a windows pdf virtual printer or are you using pdf.pltcfg ?

Are you using any pentables?

Are you telling MS plot dialog to rasterise ( tick box)

Your ms view is it a rendered view?

What version of V8i are you using ?

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But was long time user V8iss10 (8.11.09.919) dabbler CE update 16 (10.16.00.80)

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0 Offline Megan Loock Fri, Jun 5 2015 3:33 AM in reply to Lorys

printer.pltcfg to print to a windows pdf virtual printer or are you using pdf.pltcfg ? I chose the Bentley Driver and then pdf.pltcfg - This is the only option that allows me to print 3D printer

Are you using any pentables? No pentable

Are you telling MS plot dialog to rasterise ( tick box) - No option to select rasterized when I select Print 3D

Your ms view is it a rendered view? Display style is set to Smooth

What version of V8i are you using ? SS3
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0 Offline Mark Marrero Mon, Jun 8 2015 10:44 AM in reply to Megan Loock
In the print dialog you may want to look under Settings->3D Plotting and look at "Lighting Mode". It can be set from file or an Acrobat lighting mode.
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0 Offline Megan Loock Fri, Jun 12 2015 1:03 AM in reply to Mark Marrero

Hi Mark, I have tried changing in both but still don't get the same as in MS.
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