Working with MicroStation Print Organizer

1 Working with MicroStation Print Organizer 2013 Bentley LEARNing Conference MS2WK9 Working with MicroStation Print Organizer Team Leader: Dan Tanner Bentley Systems, Incorporated 685 Stockton Drive Exton, PA 19341 Workshop: MS2WK9 - Working with MicroStation Print Organizer Copyright 2013 Bentley Systems, Inc. This page left intentionally blank. Table of Contents Session Description .. 5 Learning Objectives .. 5 Working with MicroStation Print Organizer .. 6 Single Sheet Printing Enhancements .. 6 PDF Printer Enhancements .. 11 Other Enhancements .. 13 Using Print Organizer to Print a Set of Files .. 14 Defining a Hierarchical Print Set .. 16 Exercise: Create a Print Set with a Folder Hierarchy .. 17 Setting the Type of Print Definition: Fixed or Variable.

2 18 Creating Print Definitions .. 20 Using Project Explorer to Compose And Navigate a Print Set .. 21 Exercise: Add files to the BSI300 Print Set .. 22 Exercise: Open and Modify a Print Set using Project Explorer .. 25 Exercise: Add Links from Project Explorer to a Link Set .. 27 Specifying Print Definition Properties .. 29 Exercise: Manually Specify Print Definition Properties .. 36 Modifying Print Definition Properties .. 37 Exercise: Modify Print Definition Properties .. 39 Printing Print Definitions in a Print Set .. 42 Printing to a PDF .. 43 Exercise: Print to a Multi-page PDF File .. 43 Managing Names and File Paths in Print Organizer .. 45 Exercise: Rename Existing Print Definitions Using an Expression .. 47 Using Print Styles .. 48 Exercise: Create and Use a Print Style.

3 51 Exercise: Rename Existing Print Definitions Using a Custom Expression .. 52 Exercise: Create a Named Expression for Output File Names .. 54 Exercise: Use the Named Expression for the Output File Names .. 56 Exercise: Create a Print Style in a DGN 58 Exercise: Use a Print Style .. 59 Learning Paths .. 61 Assessment 63 4 Workshop: MS2WK9 - Working with MicroStation Print Organizer Copyright 2013 Bentley Systems, Inc. This page left intentionally blank. SESSION DESCRIPTION This workshop explains how to use Print Organizer to create, manage, and publish project deliverables. LEARNING OBJECTIVES After this course you will be able to: Identify Print dialog enhancements for single sheet printing Explore PDF printer driver enhancements Navigate the Print Organizer dialog Create and populate hierarchical Print sets Work with Print Organizer and Project Explorer Create and apply Print Styles Create and apply named expressions Note At the end of this training session, an assessment will be given.

4 We will review all assessment questions and answers to see what you have learned. Working with MicroStation Print Organizer Print Organizer is a replacement for the Batch Print utility. Additional printing enhancements include changes in the Print dialog for single sheet printing and the introduction of Print Styles. Print styles provide an easy and flexible way of defining default Print definition properties for both Print Organizer and the Print dialog. Printing can be as simple as setting up a view or placing a fence around the area of interest and clicking the Print icon to open the Print dialog. When you need to produce printed output from sets of files, you can use Print Organizer . It creates Print sets, which are used to identify, save, and Print a particular set of files, models, or Project Explorer links.

5 Print styles allow you to define and reuse named collections of Print definition properties. Print styles can be used in both Print Organizer and the Print dialog. SINGLE SHEET PRINTING ENHANCEMENTS Print DEFINITION FILES REPLACE Print CONFIGURATION FILES Instead of going through the complete setup procedure each time that you require printed output from a design file, you can save the Print settings in a Print definition file (.pset). A Print definition file lets you save the printing parameters for a design file, like the area to be printed, the design file specification, page size, margins, scale, and pen table, if attached. Once saved, you can recall the Print definition file at any time to create printed output of the same area of your design file. Print definition files replace the former Print configuration (.)

6 Ini) files. A Print definition file is a binary file and can be saved or recalled using the Save Print Definition File or Open Print Definition File option in the File menu of the Print dialog. The Configuration menu in the Print dialog has been removed. Single Sheet Printing Enhancements Workshop: MS2WK9 - Working with MicroStation Print Organizer 7 Copyright 2013 Bentley Systems, Inc. Using the Open Print Definition File option you can open a .pset or a .ini file. The Print dialog can read both, but can write only .pset files. Note A Print definition (.pset) file has the same file format as a Print Organizer 's Print set file, but a Print definition file created in the Print dialog contains only a single Print definition. USING Print STYLES A Print style is a named collection of Print definition properties.

7 You can select and apply a Print style in the Print dialog by selecting Settings > Apply Print Style. Read more about Print styles in the chapter Using Print Styles . PRINTER DRIVERS MIGRATES FROM .PLT TO .PLTCFG Previously, printer driver configuration files were delivered as .plt files that could be edited in a text editor. In MicroStation V8i, these .plt files are replaced by .pltcfg files that are stored in XML format. To edit a printer driver configuration file select File > Edit Printer Driver Configuration in the Print dialog, which opens the Printer Driver Configuration dialog Single Sheet Printing Enhancements 8 Workshop: MS2WK9 - Working with MicroStation Print Organizer Copyright 2013 Bentley Systems, Inc. Note You can also open a printer driver configuration file that is stored as a.

8 Plt file in the Printer Driver Configuration dialog, but the file will be read-only. Default .pltcfg printer driver configuration files are delivered in the \System\pltcfg folder. Existing .plt files are still supported, but they are no longer delivered. Print DEFINITION FILES Print definition files have replaced Print setup or Print configuration text (.ini) files. A Print definition (.pset) file is a binary file and has the same file format as Print Organizer 's Print set file, but it contains only a single Print definition. Print definition files should be edited inside MicroStation . The Configuration menu on the Print dialog, with its Open, Save, and Save As items, has been removed. The menu has been replaced with Open Print Definition File and Save Print Definition File items under the File menu.

9 The Open Print Definition File menu item brings up the Select Print Definition File dialog that lets you select a Print definition file whose extension may be either .pset or .ini. An .ini file is a legacy Print configuration file format. A .pset file is the Print Organizer Print set file format. The Print dialog can read both .ini and .pset files, but can write only .pset files. NON-RASTERIZED HIDDEN LINE REMOVAL You can now Print a view with hidden line display in non-rasterized mode. Previously the presence of a hidden line view would set and disable the Rasterized check box, causing the Print to be submitted as raster data. There is also a new menu item on the Print dialog's Settings menu for Hidden Line Removal. The new Hidden Line Removal Settings dialog lets you control settings that affect the hidden line removal process.

10 Single Sheet Printing Enhancements Workshop: MS2WK9 - Working with MicroStation Print Organizer 9 Copyright 2013 Bentley Systems, Inc. Print CONFIGURATION VARIABLES The following configuration variables have been added to the printing system. These configuration variables apply to both Print Organizer and the Print dialog. They are: MS_PRINTDEF_PATH -specifies the search path for Print definition (.pset or .ini) files. This variable replaces MS_PLOTINI, which is no longer supported. MS_PLTCFG_PATH specifies the search path for printer driver configuration (.pltcfg or .plt) files. This path is also used to locate dependent files such as PostScript prolog files, which are no longer constrained to the same directory as the selected .pltcfg or .plt files. They can be stored anywhere in MS_PLTCFG_PATH.