Remove Layers from PDF

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.......

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.......