Printing custom line styles with Print Organizer

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.
  • I have re-installed MS and have not customized any of the config files. I now have been getting the errors in the attached. I don't know why that is happening. When Print Organizer was working, it did NOT correctly show the custom line styles in the preview.
  • Some vertical applications, i.e. GeoPAK & perhaps InRoads, have known compatibility problems with Print Organizer.  I can't speak directly to that -- you would need to talk to the support team for that application.  But I suspect you now have a vertical application loaded that was not loaded before.

          
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  • It is my understanding that Print Organizer will pull the custom line style through the dgnlib for that particular file. When that line style is placed in a design file, and I use Print Organizer (PO), does PO need the workspace name placed in the Define Print Styles setup or is that resident in the design file?
  • You should not have to specify the workspace names in the print style, and it is better off that you don't.  That's an advanced feature that is supposed to allow printing designs using a different workspace than the one loaded in the current MicroStation session.  If the print definition workspaces are blank in Print Organizer, the designs will be printed using the current workspace, which is likely what you want.

    If ustation.exe is not being invoked with any command-line arguments, then you may fall into one of the custom configuration situations where designs do not display correctly in read-only mode.  Is this the case?  You can test it easily enough by opening your design in read-only mode and seeing the symbology is correct.  If that's the problem, then you can change the Print Organizer preferences to load the design files in read-write mode.  The default is read-only.

          
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  • 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?