I have been using V8i since the first beta release (Athens). Now that it's an official release I want to get everything set up for my users. I've already done some configuration stuff and now I am working on the Print Orginizer. I have dabbled with it during the beta trials but not too in depth as I seemed to be always running into some sort of issue with it. Has anybody else been having problems with it, particularly with Print Styles? When I am defining a Print Style and I've set the printer and/or pltcfg file, the sheet sizes do not show up in the drop down for the main tab. I save that step for last but it still doesn't work. Any ideas?
John K.
I believe the paper size list in the print style dialog's Main tab is obtained from the printer associated with the active print set and is provided for convenience only. You're free to type in any paper size name you like.
I agree if would be nice if the paper size list was reconstructed whenever you specified a printer driver configuration file and/or Windows printer name in the print style Printer tab. I will log a change request for that feature.
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Thank you Andrew. I was just about to post here as I had just stumbled across that. I guess I'm still a little confused as far as the Print Orginizer workflow goes. Should I be creating separate network pset files for each printer or plotter that we have or just one with multiple Print Styles in it??
Thanks Andrew, I just went through your article quickly. When I was refereing to"it" I guess I meant a dgnlib or pset file. My situation is that we would not have multiple project specific dgnlib/print styles. We would have multiple plotters and printers and each of those would have mulitple sheet sizes both mono and color. I have already set up all of the pltcfg files quite a while back for XM. These work fine for the most part. I had also set up quite a few batch plot 'templates' (.job files)for different plotters, sizes, etc. In these all of the proper specifications were pointed to our batchplt.spc file(Printer; PlotArea; Layout and Display). I guess I'm just not too sure if I should recreate all of these as pset files or print styles? I know that pltcfg files have not been superceeded in the V8i release but has the batchplt.spc been replaced by Print Styles? I'm going to go through your article in more detail now so maybe I'll see the light after that.
"jkknighton" wrote in message news:19178@communities.bentley.com... Thanks Andrew, I just went through your article quickly. When I was refereing to"it" I guess I meant a dgnlib or pset file. My situation is that we would not have multiple project specific dgnlib/print styles. We would have multiple plotters and printers and each of those would have mulitple sheet sizes both mono and color. I have already set up all of the pltcfg files quite a while back for XM. These work fine for the most part. I had also set up quite a few batch plot 'templates' (.job files)for different plotters, sizes, etc. In these all of the proper specifications were pointed to our batchplt.spc file(Printer; PlotArea; Layout and Display). I guess I'm just not too sure if I should recreate all of these as pset files or print styles? I know that pltcfg files have not been superceeded in the V8i release but has the batchplt.spc been replaced by Print Styles? I'm going to go through your article in more detail now so maybe I'll see the light after that. John K. http://communities.bentley.com/Products/MicroStation/MicroStation_V8i/MicroStation_V8i_Printing/f/19568/t/11204.aspx#19178