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 I know that pltcfg files have not been superceeded in the V8i release but has the batchplt.spc been replaced by Print Styles?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
Thanks again Andrew. I was able to get to your blog post eventually and it was very helpful. The issue that I have is that there still doesn't seem to be any way to allow the user to selct one thing in order to have everything automatically set up for them. For example; if you select a print style from the drop down on the single print dialog, it should set everything that you have set up in that print style. It does set some of the stuff but not all. It doesn't change the sheet size or pltcfg file but it does change the pen table and the plot area. Do I have to create separate pltcfg files for each sheet size? That doesn't seem logical since the pltcfg file would be a common denominator as far as settings go. If I create a 'template' pset file and specify a plot style in that pset, it should apply that plot style to any drawing you add to it but it doesn't. You have to again specifically specify a plot style to the drawings you've added. We need a one-stop-shop for printing, both batch and single.
"jkknighton" wrote in message news:19383@communities.bentley.com... Thanks again Andrew. I was able to get to your blog post eventually and it was very helpful. The issue that I have is that there still doesn't seem to be any way to allow the user to selct one thing in order to have everything automatically set up for them. For example; if you select a print style from the drop down on the single print dialog, it should set everything that you have set up in that print style. It does set some of the stuff but not all. It doesn't change the sheet size or pltcfg file but it does change the pen table and the plot area. Do I have to create separate pltcfg files for each sheet size? That doesn't seem logical since the pltcfg file would be a common denominator as far as settings go. If I create a 'template' pset file and specify a plot style in that pset, it should apply that plot style to any drawing you add to it but it doesn't. You have to again specifically specify a plot style to the drawings you've added. We need a one-stop-shop for printing, both batch and single. John K. http://communities.bentley.com/Products/MicroStation/MicroStation_V8i/MicroStation_V8i_Printing/f/19568/t/11204.aspx#19383
Okay, I'm sure you're getting sick of me by now. :) I guess what I was looking for was, for example, a user opens a drawing he wants to print. After opening the single print dialog he selects a pre-defined Print Definition based upon which printer he wants to send it to and which size he wants and everything is set for him by doing that. This works, sort of. The problem is that the Print Definition file does remember everything including the dgn file you were in when the Print Definition file was created which Microstation opens when you select the Print Definition file. If it wasn't for this fact then the Print Definition is exactly what I was looking for. I know that the Print Definition file works this way because of Print Sets but it would be great to have something like this for single plots. Thank you for your patients.
John