hgu Posted August 10, 2001 Share Posted August 10, 2001 We are a distributor of HP plotters. A customer is unable to use his HP450 with Vecorworks on Windows. The printout takes between 1-6 hours from smal files. Questions: 1. In Vectorworks able to write trough a standard HP450 printer driver? 2. Is ther alternatives. The customer is not goint to accept solutions like print to PDF. Macplot? HPGL? Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted August 10, 2001 Share Posted August 10, 2001 In version 8.x.x of VW we support accurate pattern scaling on Windows. This means that when the user prints an object with a pattern fill or a pattern frame, they get a pattern that is scaled to look like what they see on the screen. In previous versions we did not scale. When you looked at the pattern on a 96x96 dpi CRT it looked big, when you printed it to a 600x600 dpi printer it turned into more of a gray color than a pattern. Windows does not handle large patterns well so we have to do it ourselves and this is why you get the large/slow file. In VW 9.0 we added a check box for the user to turn off this feature. If the user is using patterns I would bet that is the reason things are slow. Bitmaps are another area that can slow prints down. ------------------ Robert McBride Software Engineer Nemetschek N.A. Inc mcbride@nemetschek.net Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted August 14, 2001 Share Posted August 14, 2001 What version of VectorWorks is your client using? ------------------ Brian O Nemetschek North America Technical Support Specialist Quote Link to comment
Thom Posted August 21, 2001 Share Posted August 21, 2001 I am running Win NT with VW Landmark. I have experienced the large file problem. I am ususably able to get my plots out with only a 15 min wait. It would be nice for VW to work with a plot file vendor to make an efficent driver. Quote Link to comment
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