Printing custom line styles with Print Organizer

Offline rmaeng over 14 years ago

We utilize custom line styles in our workspace i.e. a "w" inserted in a line for waterline. When we print this sheet using the standard print option and our pdf plt driver, it shows up correctly. I am new to Print Organizer so hang in there with me. I have put our pdf plt driver as the Printer driver configuration file. I don't know if this is correct or not. The bottom line is I am not able to see our custom line style when I use the Print Organizer. Any help would be most appreciated.

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Andrew Edge Fri, Mar 13 2009 10:38 PM
Are you running ustation.exe with customized command-line arguments, or using another technique to run MicroStation in a non-standard manner?

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Offline rmaeng Sat, Mar 14 2009 4:15 PM in reply to Andrew Edge

Andrew Edge:
Are you running ustation.exe with customized command-line arguments, or using another technique to run MicroStation in a non-standard manner?
Can you explain this in further detail? In customized do you mean a customized project config etc? We are running custom configs.
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Harry Stegeman Mon, Mar 23 2009 10:45 PM in reply to Andrew Edge

Hello Andrew, I have the same problems printing custom linestyles with the Print Organizer. I am starting Microstation v8i with the next keyin/shortcut: "C:\Program Files\Bentley\MicroStation V8i\MicroStation\ustation.exe" -wcC:\Cadset\Bentley\v8i\Config\brm-v8i-local.cfg -wuSTE-local I did also change the Print Organizer preference to read-write, that didn't help too. What can I do to solve the problem?
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Andrew Edge Tue, Mar 24 2009 1:50 AM in reply to Harry Stegeman
Print Organizer does not currently support ustation.exe command-line workspace customization, although a priority build might be available that adds that capability via a configuration variable. Bentley Support can offer more information on that. Refer to CR 262657.

In the commercial release, you would need to remove the command-line options and launch ustation.exe normally (which is how Print Organizer launches its background MicroStation process). You could modify the standard mslocal.cfg to use your customized settings.

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Harry Stegeman Tue, Mar 24 2009 8:51 PM in reply to Andrew Edge

I did remove the command-line options and modified the standard mslocal.cfg, now I can see the custom linestyles. Thank you very much.
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Andrew Edge Wed, Mar 25 2009 12:25 AM in reply to Harry Stegeman
Glad to hear that. We will have support for that type of customization in the next SELECT update.

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Bill Dovhan Mon, Jun 22 2009 9:10 PM in reply to Andrew Edge

You can still run the Batch Print cmd, mdl load batchplt.

You can put Batch Print cmd in a key-in, or as a modification to "File" as a site/network task dgnlib pointed to by MS_GUIDGNLIBLIST.
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Bill Dovhan Mon, Jun 22 2009 9:10 PM in reply to Andrew Edge

You can still run the Batch Print cmd, mdl load batchplt.

You can put Batch Print cmd in a key-in, or as a modification to "File" as a site/network task dgnlib pointed to by MS_GUIDGNLIBLIST.
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Andrew Edge Tue, Jun 23 2009 2:05 AM in reply to Bill Dovhan
The Batch Print application files still exist in MicroStation V8i, but are unsupported. There is no guarantee they will be delivered indefinitely (they almost certainly won't be).

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Offline rdoyne Fri, Jul 10 2009 2:09 PM in reply to Andrew Edge

Andrew, has there been any progress in fixing these issues,

We would like to move forward with V8i, but until these issues are resolved we will most likely have to shelf V8i.
Bob
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Andrew Edge Fri, Jul 10 2009 9:18 PM in reply to rdoyne
It's not clear what issues you are referring to.

GEOPak has addressed their issues running in non-graphics mode. For more information on that, you should talk to GeoPAK support.

Print Organizer will support custom ustation.exe command-line arguments in the upcoming SELECT release.

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Offline rdoyne Mon, Jul 13 2009 12:32 PM in reply to Andrew Edge

Andrew,

All of the issues,

I am currently dealing with plotting issues in XM, these issues also involve custom linestyles, and fonts that do not plot or display correctly. I have contacted support with these issues and I was told that they would be addressed in V8i. These issues have sometimes caused me to fall back to V8 in order to plot a project correctly.

Reading this thread, It appears that we have even more issues with Print Organizer because it is not using our Project workspace resources.

If print Organizer is going to be the replacement for batch plot, One would assume that it would work as well if not better than batch plot.and that it would utilize our project workspaces the way batch plot does. in addition we rely on Inroads and Geopak along with several other Bentley programs to meet our deadlines, therefore these issues can impact any upgrades that we can make to V8i.

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Offline rdoyne Tue, Dec 22 2009 2:33 PM in reply to rdoyne

Any of these issues fixed in the SS1 release?

Workspace resources not recognized when using Command line switch,

Font display, some Microstation fonts appear broken when plotted.

Custom Line styles not printing correctly when line segments are changed to complex chain.
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