Is there an easy way to create a PDF using the PDF.PLTCFG plot drivere that will act in a similar way as a plotter, basically a roll plot? I have to make a PDF's of a large areas that range in sizes, all of which are not standard. I created a page size…

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…

I'm trying to create a pen table with multiple level regular expressions in the Element Search Criteria for an individual section. Putting in a single expression works just fine, but when I add a second the entire level expression is ignored. For example…

I'm trying to determine a way to with the standard pen table substitutions or named expressions to print "Sheet X of Y" for various disciplines within one print set file. There is a named expression variable "PrintSet.PrintDefCount" that counts the total…

How do I save a 3D sheet file as a 2D sheet file? I'm having trouble printing to pdf files as 2D references in a 3D sheet file produce 3D 'windows' with viewing tools in the pdf file. Many thanks, Paul

When trying to use the Print Organizer, I select my files and print style, but when I click OK nothing happens. I noticed in my Message Center that "The process 'C:\Program Files\Bentley\MicroStation\ustation.exe' encountered an error during startup"…

Picking a printstyle, other than the default, via the "Apply PrintStyle" selection of the print dialog box is very slow. I have tried to simplify things as much as possible by having only (2) .pltcfg files where line weights and linestyle scales are set…

I have a problem with MicroStation V8i being extremely slow when we change “PrintStyles”. I have narrowed it down to not being the actual “PrintStyle” in the dgnlib file , but the .pltcfg file that the “PrintStyle” calls. As I said, I have disabled MicroStation…

I have a couple of questions about when and how to update printing capabilities. We like to have them setup on the network rather than each individual PC. Are all of the new printing features in new versions of MicroStation taken care of in the…

Most of our office is now using Microstation XM. We have one project where we use Microstation font 30. On most of the computers when we screen plot the font plots right. On a few of the computers font 30 plots with some of the letters such as the "C…

Hi, Does anyone know why is there such a marked difference in print output quality for a given Raster (say a tif file) that is imported as an image versus attached as a Raster reference? The imported image print output is unreadable. Is…

What are the two letter abbreviations for priorty and transparancy so I can auto set them in an XML file? Thanks in advance.

Working out the kinks on changing our shop to XM. In V8, when we plot sheets that have aerial photos in them, we can print black linework with a color image by changing the color mode to monochrome. In V8xm, when we plot sheets that have aerial…

Hi there, I'm trying to plot to JPEG format. We often use drawings in powerpoint presentations and I end up converting a PDF in photoshop to a JPEG - This is not fun. So, is it possible to print straight to JPEG rather than PDF? I've tried…

I have seen other threads here with a similar problem, but no answer. In my case, I am upgrading from Microstation 2004 to XM. In digest, a plot file generated for an HP 5100 printer on 11 X 17 paper, generates a 12 Meg plot file -this is about…