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printing in CATIA V4, need help with configuration

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ggiles

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Hi,
I haven't had a reason until now to print of a large format print onto a smallerpaper size until now. I Want to scale down a 36" wide print x what ever to a 18" wide print by whatever length. I can seem to get the plotting configurations right in CATIA to do it. I've gone into the layout to play with the frame and window sizes but I just haven't had enough experience with printing from CATIA. The drawings also have alot ow white coloured lines and text which doesn't print as a solid line. How do I get it to print as a solid line with out changing the text and lines to a different colour?

Thanks for any advise.

 
Hello,

if your plotter understands PS try out this parameter section in your plt_cfg file. The MAP parameters refer to an A4 in this example.

Regards
Stefan


*BEGIN_PARAM
/ --------------PLOTTING KEYWORDS (REFER TO CATPUB REFERENCE MANUAL)
*EXPORT POSTSCRIPT
/ MAPPING --> MARGIN 5 MILLIMETERS A4 FORMAT FOR EXAMPLE
*MAP 5. 5. 200.0 287.0
*ROT 999
*CLR B&W
*TXT NO
*END_PARAM
 
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