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Improve fonts in PDFs made from a design file
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Improve Fonts In PDFs Made From A DGN
Original Tip Date:
Aug. 14, 2002
Improve fonts in PDFs made from a DGN
MicroStation V7 - If you've not been happy with the quality of text when creating PDF files from MicroStation, try the following.
Create a copy of
pscriptc.plt
and add the lines shown below at the end of the file. You may also want to change the
default_extension
as indicated in the fist line.
default_extension/auto_incExt='ps';default extension for plotfiles
;Font Substitution
FONT("Courier")=(0)/Sizeratio=1.20 ;MicroStation STANDARD
FONT("Helvetica")=(1)/Sizeratio=1.15 ;MicroStation WORKING
FONT("Courier")=(2)/Sizeratio=1.31 ;MicroStation FANCY
FONT("Courier")=(3)/Sizeratio=1.26 ;MicroStation ENGINEERING
FONT("Helvetica")=(7)/Sizeratio=0.72 ;MicroStation COMPRESSED
FONT("Helvetica-Oblique")=(23)/Sizeratio=1.07 ;MicroStation ITALIC
FONT("Symbol")=(26)/Sizeratio=1.00 ;MicroStation GREEK
FONT("Helvetica")=(32)/Sizeratio=1.22 ;MicroStation INTL_ENGINEERING
FONT("Helvetica")=(33)/Sizeratio=1.22 ;MicroStation INTL_WORKING
FONT("Helvetica")=(42)/Sizeratio=1.35 ;MicroStation BLOCK_OUTLINE
FONT("Helvetica")=(43)/Sizeratio=0.96 ;MicroStation LOW_RES_FILLED
FONT("Helvetica")=(105)/Sizeratio=0.93 ;MicroStation INTL_ISO
FONT("Courier")=(106)/Sizeratio=0.88 ;MicroStation INTL_ISO_EQUAL
FONT("Courier")=(127)/Sizeratio=1.26 ;MicroStation CHAR_FAST_FONT
To use this method of plotting you'll have to place the plotfile (ie: filename.ps) into a folder watched by Acrobat Distiller or drag and drop the file into Acrobat Distiller.
With thanks to
Sean Forward
for sharing this tip.