Have others been experiencing a line merge problem when you use the publish command? Basically if you have some screens or something in your file and they are sitting on top of some lines it completely overwrites them. If I were to go into my dwg file and manually set my draworder things would print the way I need tthem to. I can go through and send my file directly to my Oce and the lines are merged correctly. I am able to set the line merge feature for my OCE but I don't see a setting for the publish command. Anyone have any advice? -- Mike Brester Cad Support Technician MulvannyG2 Architecture 1110 - 112th Avenue NE, Suite 500 Bellevue, Washington 98004 t: 425.463.2000 f: 425.463.2140 d: 425.463.1974 e: w: www.MulvannyG2.com Celebrating 32 years of DESIGN AT WORK Bellevue, Wa | Portland, Or | Irvine, Ca | Washington DC | Shanghai, China
Sorry I guess I assumed to much. WE are using ACAD 2004. Trying to use the Publish routine to create DWF files. You will notice that the line merge does not work when you leave it to create a multiple sheet dwf. Now I can force it by telling it to use the plotter specified in my page setup but I should not have to do that.
Yes we are talking about DWF files. When I need to plot I do print straight to the OCE. The Scenario is that I want to send my entire contruction set to a consultant. He can then either jsut view them on his screen or print them out if he needs to. But when he prints them out the line merge is not working. You can only view DWF files created in 2004 with Express Viewer. To my knowledge and through the testing I have done Express Viewer will plot rather nicely if your DWF files are created correctly. Also from what I have seen you can not tell Publish what driver to use when creating a multi sheet DWF. It uses what has been hardcoded. Compared to Publish Batch Plot blows something serious.
This is exactly the model that Autodesk is pushing for. You distribute then print instead of print then distribute. You are doing the right thing. Now if we could just get Publish to honor merge control some way, we'd be golden.
You should not have to go through the drawing and set your draw order for every line. I don't have to do that right now when I print normally to my OCE device. I know Line Merge is an option with HPGL2 drivers. The issue is that you can not get to the drivers to set line merge for the PUblish command.
I am aware of all this. I was just wondering if other had been experiencing the same issues and if others either knew of a work around or if this is being addressed in SP1?
