When working with model spaces within a DGN file, our presentation files have several model spaces that make up various stages of our presentations. Is there anyway to have a tag of some sort printed somewhere within the printed copy that places which…

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…

My pen table outputs dimensions to colour Black. This shows up in the print preview but the PDF file shows no change of colour. Any ideas? regards Patrick XM 08.09.04.88 Windows XP Professional SP2 AMD Semperon 2300…

I am trying to use the graphics output from the pen table. I know that you can have a color plot a graphic output (lines, cross hatching, diamonds, etc) but the scale of the graphics is too large. Is there anyway of scaling the graphic output to make…

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

I am trying ot print the help file to bind into a hard copy manual. The only way I manage is to print each chapter individually. Has anyone got a better way? I would like to give a single print instruction to print the entire helpfile, its index an its…

I am trying to find out how to get a text subtitution in Iplot that will recognize the last "save date" for a design file. I can do it easily in the Microstation Pen Table but I can't write it for Iplot. MS Pen table...._LASTSAVEDDATE_ Iplot…

I'm making prints to PDF using the latest XM configuration. When the config files is set to enable the file/level optional content, the PDF will look correct in adobe pro 9, but will print with these big squares as shown in the attachment. …

I have been working on plans and elevations in XM and I want to plott them out to Phtoshop or illustrator. Does anyone know how I go about this? As when I have attempted it before I dont select the right drivers or choices. Cheers…

In XM -- Geopak places contours by line strings. Trouble is, the generated contour linestrings are lots of little line string segments, large portions of the contours look solid b/c the dash is computed using the little segemnts of linestring, and not…

I am trying to plot a raster image using XM's PDF plot file configuration. However, the line string and text that has been placed on the image do not show up when the file is plotted to PDF. I have gone to the raster manager and sent the image to back…