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Black & White Printing


chstech

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I thought the Document Preferences / B&W was for screen viewing only. I will have to go try this.

My second problem is that what i thought was a "rigging point" is actually a 2d Loci. Any suggestion to print those or insert a symbol onto each one i have in a drawing?? There is about 600.

If you have anything above Fundamentals, the Batch Print and Batch Export (PDF) allow you to set each "page" of the export/print to be either color or black/white.

The other option is to go into Document Preferences and select the Black & White Only check box and then do your print or export.

Pat

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How about a script to put a symbol at the location of each loci?

Create a symbol that looks the way you want the loci to print, name it PrintLocus, and run this script:

{**********************}

Procedure PrintableLoci;

{Inserts a symbol named PrintLocus at the locaiton of each loci on the active layer}

{? 2008, Coviana, Inc - Pat Stanford pat@coviana.com}

{Licensed unde the GNU Lesser General Public License}

Var H1:Handle;

X1,Y1:Real;

N1,N2:Integer;

Begin

H1:=FActLayer;

While H1 <> nil do

Begin

If GetType(H1) = 17 then

Begin

GetLocPt(H1,X1,Y1);

Symbol('PrintLocus',X1,Y1,0);

H1:=NextObj(H1);

End

else

Begin

H1:=NextObj(H1);

End;

End;

End;

Run(PrintableLoci);

{**********************}

Pat

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Here is the short version of how to use the script:

Copy everything between the {**********} lines.

Activate the drawing you want the script to be in.

Use the resource browser to create a new VectorScript. It will first ask for a name for the script palette and then for the script. After putting in both names, it will open the script editor.

Paste the text into the editor.

Click OK to close the editor.

Double Click on the name of the script in the Script Palette to run the script.

Let me know how it goes.

Pat

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does anyone know where i can find this plugin to toggle colour to bw?

i remember using this back on Vectorworks 9 or 10 but had been removed for subsequent version upgrades. takes too much time to select document preferences and changing it each time we need to print.

thanks if anyone can help - i'm on VW 12.5 fundamentals osx 10.5

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