.plt file assist (asap)

It may have something to do with the driver that is being used to generate the .plt files. Some plot file drivers are not able to handle True Type Fonts. You could: try different print driver or replace or redefine the text styles that use true type fonts with styles using native AutoCAD .shp file type fonts.

I would recommend the latter. K.

There are a few .plt file viewers out there some of these migh work... but I d> I have created a plt file from a drawing. However when I open the plt

Thankyou for the reply Mr Anderson ;o)

Truth told its a little over my head. (im not daft or inexperienced but in my job these things were always sorted by an IT guy so we could just churn out the drawings, unfortunately hes gone so we're all learning...) Can you help with the following?

1) How do I change a printer driver? 2) Ive looked on the format / text styles list of fonts and I cant see any .shp files. There are .shx files and some that do not have an extension - are these the .shp files?

I really am grateful for the viewer links, I looked for two hours the other day and didnt find anything. Hopefully I can get this .plt file thing sorted out and get the damn thing uploaded onto the ftp site. It'll be a huge weight off my shoulders to be sure. Thanks again, Lee

Hi Lee, Autocad uses the windows system printers. So, if you need another driver, be sure to have the printer properly installed in windows. Secondly, autocad uses so called PC3 files. In these you configure the printer for use in autocad. You can create a new autocad printer from within autocad. Take a look at File-Plottermanager, this thing wil generate your PC3 file.

Choeck out if there are no layers set to NO-PLOT. What plotter do you use?

Jan

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Here a free viewer also with support of HPGL / HPGL2 / HP-RTL ....

Regards Toni

We use mainly a HP 750C colour plotter for drawings and a HP Laserjet 4000 for A4 copies. We did have a bit of progress today with the .plt file thing. It seems to show any fonts that were in romans so just to get the thing done, I went through and changed the text styles and dimensions styles so they are all romans. Unfortunately we are supposed to be using set linetypes, text styles and layers but im hoping the recipient wont notice ive had to alter them. (It should be all ariel)

Regards Lee

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check fine SPLOT too:

N.

Another way to do it is to set up the printer in the windows printer files. I have a Hewlett Packard 750C+ Printer, and in the windows setup (shortcut to printers), I can configure five printer setups. I select the correct paper size in the setup (printer preferences), then use the default printer when I plot. Maybe I should be using the PC3 system, but I found the above method very easy. When I want to print to another printer, I make that printer the default printer, then print to the default printer in AutoCAD. No problems.

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