Good day all, I have a peculiar issue here that I cannot figure out. I have a drawing that has a raster image as the background. Now, I have two text elements. One appears with a white background in the paper space, which is more desirable for me…

intermittently I get what the two pics show in my screen shots. These are a clients TB and we work on their workspace for their projects. Just wondering if anyone else has run into this. I use V8i (series4). THanks for any help.

When I select the relevant printer driver configuration we use at work, it does not take affect when I print or export at pdf. We have tried reinstalling Microstation Powerdraft V8i but it still does not work. Does anyone have suggestions on how to…

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…

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'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…

Hi all, When I choose "Settings > Apply Print Style" from the Print Dialog and change to another Print Style it takes ok not 5 min., but 4 min and 59 seconds to apply. What could be the problem? This is just too long. (V8i SS2) TIA Mike

With MicroStation V8i, Print Organizer was introduced as the new interface for set printing in MicroStation. Although it is still delivered in both V8 i SELECTseries 1 and the upcoming SELECTseries 2 release, Batch Print was removed from the file menu…

I have several sheets in the same PSET of varying type. I would like to be able to apply one print definition to several large color sheets and another to print definition to several small black and white exhibits. The process I'm attempting to achieve…

Is there a way to not have the pdf.pltcfg not rasterize OLE objects? Attached excel files look terrible when they are rasterized unless the DPI is set much higher that should be needed for a good print. I know I can use a regular printer.pltcfg set…

We are having an issue with our line weights when we plot to PDF. When we plot to the printer, all of the line weights look exactly the way we want them. The problem occurs when we plot to PDF. Line weights get larger or smaller, but only for certain…

I created an aerial using the google earth image capture feature in Microstation V8i. As you may know, microstation does this by creating a triangulated surface or mesh, which is then draped by an image, as if the image were a material. The end result…

Hi folks, A simple thing I just can't a radar lock on.... editing a 'TBL' file. Someone might kindly got a line on that for me please? Much appreciated! Cheers

We are having an issue where Print Organizer is not reading the PW managed workspaces, so when we print our files, our custom linestyles, fonts, named expressions, text substitutions, etc, etc, are not being processed since that information does not reside…

I created a few new levels on my working file to make it easier to edit...... but when I print to PDF the lines I drew with the new levels are not displayed. Any ideas how to fix this? or do I just have to stick to the existing levels?

Hi I am using the pdf.plt and noticed that I can set the pens to 1 to make only monochrome printing available, my question is, is there a way to have colour and monochrome printing available but set the default to monochrome as I noticed when I have 256…

I created a few new levels on my working drawing, so it makes things easier for editing...... but when I print the file to PDF, the PDF file does not display the lines I drew with the new Levels. All the Plot are checked on. Any ideas how can…

I am new to Microstation and currently trying to configure a plt file to printer to an Oce 9300. Using a HPGL2 plt file I have set up custom weight strokes for pen thickness. When I use the plt file to print to the 9300 I get no line thickness at all…

We have just upgraded our MicroStation from V8 and XM to V8i. I use Level Symbology to print grayscale by assigning a screened gray to certain color numbers. I am using the same plot drivers and pen tables as I used with V8i and XM. However, my print…