Support for Embedded TrueType (TTF) font in MicroStation Print/Interplot/ICS authored PDF files
We switched over from traditional RSC fonts to a unified TrueType font (TTF) family and have been struggling with modern PDF applications (e.g. Acrobat, Bluebeam, web browsers, etc.) rendering the MicroStation-authored TrueType font characters such as…
Why will text in a NonPlotLayer plot when cached with "Process Text and Dimension"
Hello We have some text drawn in the 3d-model on a NonPlot Layer. But when caching it in the reference it will plot even though its in the same non plot layer. It will not plot when unCached. Could someone please explain ? Regards / Oskar
[V8i] Patterns and section callouts plotting with fill
See Edit
I'm attempting to plot sheets created in Microstation V8i, and I'm getting inappropriate fills on some sheets and not on others, and cannot discern why. The sheets were created with saved views cut from a 3D model. Once the saved views were…
***Pen table disappears in SOME drawings
Hi our office just updated our Microstation to 11 power draft connect edition and we seem to have a lot of errors on this updates.
Pen table disappears in some drawings- Some drawings we 'model' is working fine with attached pen table, however, our…
Print to PDF from Drawing
Hello,
I am having a problem with printing to PDF out of a drawing in Microstation. When I select a fence, then go to file>print and select a Bentley PDF driver and hit plot....nothing happens. I am not getting the "save as" dialog box pop up that I…
Printer Driver Configuration
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…
RE: 3D PDF with saved views generated from Microstation
In your query you mention " default views " by this do you mean for example Top, Front, Right .........as per the standard views in MicroStation rather specifically created Saved Views ?
If this is the case the you could create Saved Views for yourself…
RE: Plot as 3D problem
Hi Michael,
Did you use the Bentley driver: pdf.ptlcfg and selected the Print to 3D from the print dialog? Please review this wiki article https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/microstation_printing/w/wiki/plotting-3d-models-faq
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Powerdraft SS 3 &4 - Plotting to A1 paper
Hi there,
I have recently been using Powerdraft, I have tried to print a drawing on A1 paper at a scale of 1:50 [landscape]. What comes out of the printer is an A1 sheet with the drawing reduced in size in the top left corner, the drawing is the size…
Line weight 0 in printing
Hello, I'm quite new user of microstation, my knowledge is pretty basic. Recently upgraded from PowerDraft V8i (SELECTseries 2) to MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries 3) (which might be the cause of the problem). I have already searched similar threads on…
Printing individual sheets according to Project Index
Is there a way in Print Organizer to plot each sheet of a project according to its name in the project index? I imagine that named expressions will be involved, only I'm not quite certain how.
Say the project contains sheets:
1 - Title Sheet …
Printing White Text Over Mesh
Currently using MicroStation V8i SS3. Using the Geographic Tools in a separate file I imported an image from Google Earth that exists as a mesh element type. This file is then referenced into my sheet file to be shown as a background image, similar to…
V8i SS3 - Item Sets Printing and Display.
Good morning, afternoon or evening depening on where you are,
I have recently been playing around with Item sets to turn on/off the display of certian elements within references. I can manage to get certian elements to not be displayed, however when…
allow paper size editing - MS stops working
When turning on the option 'allow paper size editing' the plot dialog is extended with 2 boxes allowing to enter a width and height of the plotted sheet.
When I turn it on and use the option, when using the 'plot' commando to create the pdf plot, MS…
Re: Create single print files like the .ini on V8i
I am trying to create predetermined print setting file that can be opened and used on any drawings. in V8 i was able to make files (.ini) that when i opened the file, they applied the printer settings on the print dialog box and then i can print with…
Issues with loading and plotting rasters with V8i (SS2)
Hello,
We recently upgraded from V8 (2004) to V8i (SS2) and are having issues with loading raster images (.jpeg's) and plotting the files that contain them. To give you an idea, we have one exhibit file that contains 8 raster images of decent quality…
No "save as" dialogs appearing with use of Bentley PDF drivers.
Hello all.
We have begun having issues with newly created user accounts. When we add a new user to to ProjectWise ( SS3 - 09.11.09.109 ) they are unable to print to PDF files within MicroStation V8i ( SS2 - 08.11.07.443 ). The "save as" dialog which…
Draped Surface Printing
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…
Open and Edit .TBL file
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
When printing to PDF it does not display the new levels.
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?
Re: Printing with reference JPG file give wrong line weight
Mike,
For the vector elements, I think that, if the same plotting parameters are used as when plotting with MicroStation, you should get the same result.
As for the rasters, I think it depends on the resampling algorithm used by Adobe…
Setting default print attributes from printer.plt
Not sure if this is possible. What I need is a way to set some default print attributes from my plot driver so that the users don't have to keep setting them. I have had a look at printer configuration files and managed to turn the attributes off this…
Default PDF Colour Output
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…
Created new levels on my file but are not displayed after I print to PDF
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…