Plot size 2002 vs 2005 - 2005 much larger...

I'm running Windows 2000 SP4, plotting to a Oce 9400 using hdi drivers.

If I plot a drawing from within AutoCAD 2002 I get a plot size of 556kb
(start, settings, printers, click on printer). If I plot using AutoCAD 2005
I get a plot size of 2.21mb, both using the same HDI driver. Plotting from
AutoCAD 2004 I get the same file size as 2005.

I've tried setting up the plotter from scratch within AutoCAD 2005 and get
the same file size as from plotting from the pc3 file created under AutoCAD
2002. How can I get the plot size down to what it used to be? Large plot
files are making it tough to sell 2005 to my boss.

Sage

 

I wouldn't necessarily say choked but it takes 5 mins on 2005 vs 1 min or so
on 2002. Plotting out a 25 sheet project it adds a ton of time.

 

Does your drawing contain raster images and / or OLE objects? If so, we
made some changes to improve plot quality for HP plotters, and also for OLE
objects in general. Your settings may have resolved to a higher quality for
2004/2005. You can try going to the Raster Graphics page of the PC3 editor
and adjusting the Raster and / or OLE quality sliders downward until you get
the filesize / plot speed you need with an acceptable level of quality.

The purpose of these sliders is to address just the kind of issue you are
seeing - getting the best possible quality / speed tradeoff for your
particular drawings / printer configuration. Prior to 2004, however, due to
the algorithms both Autodesk and HP was using to calculate actual
resolution, some users were unable to get maximum quality for their printer
capability if they were willing to pay the time tradeoff.

We have adjusted the algorithms to allow for the maximum, while keeping the
default settings the same for HP, but best quality for HP is now a higher
resolution than before.

For OLE, we are always defaulting to best quality now, since OLE objects
don't tend to be as sensitive to the size issue. Depending on your
particular needs, checking and adjusting these sliders should help. Please
let us know how it goes.

Terri

 

Terri,

I have no Raster Graphics page on the PC3 editor for our HP1050c (driver
vers. 4.63). Is this perhaps only supported with your Raster Driver which
only supports certain plotters? (100,500,800,5000&5500).

Terry