topic Re: PLT files in Publisher in Documentation

PLT files in Publisher

Anonymous — Thu, 25 May 2023 22:14:36 GMT

Archicad 11 needs to have an option of saving as a PLT file in the Publisher portion. It can save as a PLT file manually printing each sheet 1 at a time but not in Publisher.

Thanks.

Re: PLT files in Publisher

TomWaltz — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:39:56 GMT

I didn't realize anyone was still using PLT files. I thought everyone has switched to either DWF or PDF.

Re: PLT files in Publisher

Link — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:54:40 GMT

It's actually very simple.

Set your Publisher properties to Plot, then place all your view/layouts in one folder. With that folder selected, assign a Spool Folder under Plot Setup, then select Spool Folder under Plot Settings. Then publish that set and all the PLT's will be saved to that Spool Folder.

If you need to check that it worked, simply drag and drop the PLT files back into ArchiCAD.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: PLT files in Publisher

Rex Maximilian — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:03:17 GMT

TomWaltz wrote:
I didn't realize anyone was still using PLT files. I thought everyone has switched to either DWF or PDF.

I've found that PDF files (or rather postscript in general) tend to do two undesirable things:

1) Diagonal lines are thicker
2) PLT hairlines are much... ummm... hairier? (haha) you know what I mean--thinner!