Hello,
When I place a table in ORD either from an excel document, report, or just a blank table, it looks good in the drawing, but when I try to print it, it will print all black. I know if I change the background to "No Fill", then this prints the table. However, I'm trying to place these tables in such a way that it will hide anything behind it (survey lines for example) automatically, so we don't have to clip the references for every table placed in the plan set.
One route we've taken in the past is to place a shape with a fill color of 255, and then used our .dscript to tell the plot to print that color white. Then we just need to make sure that the shape is behind whatever it's clipping. Now that I'm switching to using the Table function in ORD, I would like to avoid placing a shape. But, would this same strategy work? Can we use the .dscript to find a table background of 255 and tell it to plot white?
Can try to set the Fill of Table as color 255 (Background).
The table will be printed and covered the elements behind.
jing jing (o'.'o)
I set the fill of the table to color 255, and the table still prints all black. When you printed it in the screenshot you took, were you using a .dscript or pen table? Is your .pltcfg set up a certain way to handle tables?
What about using a fill color of 16. Or an RGB value of 254,254,254. It's not truly white so it doesn't print as black, but it's also close enough to white that it's not noticeable. Of course it has to be higher priority than the graphics you're trying to hide.
Just tried both 16 and 254,254,254 and they both print all black just the same. It seems like having any fill causes it to print all black.
That's odd, when I use either of those it works fine (16 is noticeably grey, RGB values worked better). All I changed were the fill colors for the odd and even rows.
I used no pen table or design script and Bentley's default printer.pltcfg printed to a pdf.