• Support for Embedded TrueType (TTF) font in MicroStation Print/Interplot/ICS authored PDF files

    We switched over from traditional RSC fonts to a unified TrueType font (TTF) family and have been struggling with modern PDF applications (e.g. Acrobat, Bluebeam, web browsers, etc.) rendering the MicroStation-authored TrueType font characters such as…
  • Print Organizer Works With Some Drawings And Not With Others

    Hi! I'm running into kind of weird issue with Print Organizer - I have found a workaround, but would like to know why this may occur. So, I'll start up one of the DGNs that don't seem to work with the Print Organizer, start the Print Organizer. After…
  • PEN Table exception to make fill/backgrounds white?

    Our agency has PEN tables that allow utilities to appear in color and certain grays to plot and be transparent. There is a section in the PEN table wording that encompasses all other levels and sets them to black. Unfortunately, this also applies to the…
  • Trouble Printing with Hatches

    If I print one of my drawings out of MicroStation V8i to a pdf with a hatch in the drawing (road hatch) then the pdf size is extremely large. If I turn the hatch layer off and print in the exact same way that I printed before, then the pdf size is normal…
  • Microstation crashes when trying to print

    Hi everyone. One of our employees’ microstation crashes as soon as she tries to print. When you click print the print dialog does not even open, instead it freezes a little bit and then opens the send error dialog, if you close it, it opens another…
  • [CONNECT] Printer Scale Clipping

    The variable MS_PLT_ENABLE_SCALE_CLIPPING states that plots will not be clipped if set to "0". Refer image below. Has anyone else noticed this setting is not honoured in CE for all situations? e.g. If I FENCE an A1 in DESIGN MODEL, set scale to 1…
  • Low resolution when exporting to stl?

    Hi, how can I export stl files in higher resolution? The dgn files that I export to stl files is not perfect round but instead small lines put together in a circle?
  • When raster print it comes out with color, when non-raster no color just a black border

    When raster print it comes out with color, no problem but when when I un tick rasterize (therefore non-rasterized) no color just a black border. Is there a setting that I have to change or is this by default and can't be fixed? First image non-pasteurized…
  • [CONNECT] Border Attachment Printing Issues

    [PD CONNECT 10.10.00.23][Win10] We are trying to speed up our sheet creation process, and are attempting to use 'Border Attachment', but are having an issue with printing. I have previously had the same, unresolved issue with v8i. TR342679 SR8001430780…
  • Linestyle not printing from print organizer

    I have drawings with a certain linestyle pictured below. When I print from the microstation print dialog the linestyle shows up how it is supposed to. When I print from the print organizer it prints as just a line with no style associated. I have tried…
  • We use Microstation 8.11.09.832. When we go to print with print organizer the output is the wrong color. Black and grey can look Lavender or Brown.

    Is this a pen table issue? I had the Ricoh engineers out to look at the fiery and they indicated that the hardware was fine. The issue seems to happen most when printing to a printer shared from the server. When we print from IP address, it sometimes…
  • Printing issues

    Hello everyone, I have two problems with printing/exporting to pdf. 1) I am unable to print transparencies. If I rasterize the drawing, half drawing is printed in the sheet model (white background) and half in the design model (black background…
  • How to print a saved view with a display style

    I've got a 3D model file with a custom saved view with a display style referenced into a drawing file. However when I try to print this either to a plotter or to PDF the display style reverts to wireframe (rather than 'smooth modelling' for example).…
  • Bentley Learn - Print Organizer

    This is a comment and a question... We pay for Bentley Learn and while it can be handy and has some good content; sometimes I spend FAR more time trying to find the training than is reasonable (or frankly worth the effort). For example I wanted find…
  • Print Limit 500 Microstation Print Organizer

    Hi I used to use IPLOT to create pdf's but found that the standard Print Organizer i much faster. But I have a problem when I need to create more than 500 print (plotshapes). I know where to changes this for IPLOT, but can't find the same config…
  • [V8XM/V8i]Printing with tif image driver failure

    Hello! In all versions of V8XM and V8i tif driver (tif.pltcfg) has a problem. If you set any resolution and then you print, the result will always be of 3072x2304 pixels. Matteo
  • Re: Print Organizer and Workspaces

    I can reproduce this as well. It appears to be an intermittent problem that's caused by Print Organizer using multiple threads to print one sheet while at the same time perform background processing on the other sheets. Multiple workspaces throw a wrench…
  • Re: Print Styles

    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…
  • Note Background Fill Issue

    Hey everyone - Having an issue with my notes when I'm trying to apply a background fill color to the text box using a pentable. The text prints on top of the fill shape, as it should, but the actual box line is covered by the fill shape. (See attached…
  • Microstation Print 3d PDF with Links

    Hi Everyone, Maybe some can help me here. I have a question: Is there any possibility to print 3d drawings to -> 3d PDF with e-links to use inside 3d PDF? For example If i have 3d PDF to have inside with e-links to other pdf files. I want to create something…
  • Re: Large PDF output size V8i...

    Apologies.....that worked......I assumed that when I send 'yes' to 'save changes' that it would automatically pick up those changes in the current session. thanks for your help. (File now 0.5 Mb as expected!) cheers
  • Large PDF output size V8i...

    I have an A4 sized sheet with 2 attached raster images (each original image is just over 1 Mb ), but the PDF output file is over 8Mb!!....not very useful..... can someone help - I've not touched the driver configuration.
  • Deep references not showing up in the output from print organiser

    I am working on moving an existing Bentley Architecture project over to v8i I have discovered that extractions which are nested quite deep (my sheets has nestign depth 5). All of the overlayed 2D information which is higher up the nesting tree does print…
  • Print Organizer - Fence Shape is in a NESTED Ref

    The fence is in a reference that is NESTED 1 level deep. How can I get Print Organizer to find this shape? It's acting like it doesn't see the shape and is instead using the view to define the print window. Thanks! EDIT: I thought I'd…
  • 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…