Remove Layers from PDF

This what I have in my  default untouched original pdf. plt cfg from what you described I think your driver is corrupt you should not edit  some of the values that have  pull downs such as the enable optional content...

Attached is my  original PDF.pltcfg unedited... out of the box

I use msnt ss3. copy and rename then edit by  the pull downs  the enable optional to be off the text searchbale to be off the rgb comp to be jpeg not zipped basically everything in my screen capt that can be changed from is ON to OFF and  under the resolution make that  lower or hight depending if your  pdfs come too big.. I have 2 named copies one 600dpi and one 300dpi also  one called  LayeredON just incase clients want it... but I think this only works with adobe reader being able to see and choose levels....

3884.pdf.pltcfg

Hi Ken,

Ken Harrison said:

For starters, the field called "Enable Optional Content" was left blank in the original driver

Why did you do that? Do you assume this is correct modification to change an configuration to have undefined value? Is such configuration based on some recommendation or best practice from MicroStation documentation or discussed here or in admin community?

Ken Harrison said:

It seems like it is something with the driver itself.

No with the driver itself (PDF printing engine), but probably with your configuration file. With all respect, your file is a mess. When I compare the original MicroStation pdf.pltcfg driver with yours, there are so many configurations undefined:

Why? Do you know exactly how MicroStation driver behaves when any from the options defined by default has no value assigned?

Even more (and worse) some settings seem to have set incorrect values. For example I found Optimize Raster Color Depth has value 2, which is nonsense in my opinion, because this setting is Boolean configuration, so valid values are False (0) and True(1), not any other.

Ken Harrison said:

Any ideas?

I think there are two options:

• Start from scratch, make a copy from original correct pdf.pltcfg file and change only the settings that are different. Never remove any setting, when it has assigned value in original file, it has to have the value also in your version!
• Take both files (yours and original one) and to compare them. You will see how many settings are missing and also some probably have incorrect values. I guess this is the reason why you file does not work as expected.

With regards,

  Jan

Based off the couple of comments, I believe it will be best to take the Bentley delivered PDF driver and start over. My practice is to take whatever was delivered from Bentley and only modify what needs to be modified to suit our purpose. We try to leave it as much out of the box as possible. In regards to this plot driver, I'm not sure where it came from originally and how it came to be in it's final form. I don't know of any changes recently, but that doesn't mean someone else hasn't changed. 

Let me get it back to square one and hopefully this will resolve the issue, and maybe even other issues as well.

Thanks for the help,
Ken

The driver I sent  you was the original untouched... and I basically mentioned what to try to change.. those blanks you reported were a worry so I too thought it better to rebuild a new custom one... FYI I think you should now recheck all your customised drivers.......

Hello Ken,

Looks like your file has been altered by a web editor or the like, not through the Microstation GUI. This is indicated by stuff like "xmlns:xsi="">www.w3.org/.../XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil" with a value of "true". This can be found repeatedly throughout your file when you open it with notepad. Better try the driver that comes with the package or the one Lorys provided. Edit it through Microstation to avoid corruption, not through an external editor. Allways keep a backup.


To be honest, I do not think that disabling levels is going to save you a lot of space. One percent max when getting rid of 150 levels in a 1.2 MB file. So, that's not a lot.