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Why are my fills (patches) solid black in PM !!??

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:39:54 GMT

I have tried changing numerous settings in both AC and PM but they still come through as solid black on the layouts in PM. The files are .PLN imports. I am using PM 3.1.0 v.1 and AC 8.1.0 v.1 I don't recall running into this issue before -what is happening? TIA

Re: Why are my fills (patches) solid black in PM !!??

Djordje — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 06:41:48 GMT

aad1 wrote:
I have tried changing numerous settings in both AC and PM but they still come through as solid black on the layouts in PM. The files are .PLN imports. I am using PM 3.1.0 v.1 and AC 8.1.0 v.1 I don't recall running into this issue before -what is happening? TIA

Maybe printing with All colors to black?

Re: Why are my fills (patches) solid black in PM !!??

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 16:55:32 GMT

Thanks for the reply Djorde. I have plotting preferences set to grayscale. However, the reason for my post was not because of the output (on paper) but because they appear black on-screen in PM -so I already assumed they would plot that way.

Re: Why are my fills (patches) solid black in PM !!??

Djordje — Sun, 25 Apr 2004 11:01:21 GMT

aad1 wrote:
However, the reason for my post was not because of the output (on paper) but because they appear black on-screen in PM -so I already assumed they would plot that way.

And how do they plot? Or print?

Can you post the screenshot?

Re: Why are my fills (patches) solid black in PM !!??

__archiben — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:28:30 GMT

what you see on screen is a preview of how they are going to print/plot.

the preview can be controlled differently to the output.

right click on one of your drawings and choose "Drawing Settings...". there is a tab, "Frame and Output Colour", where you have the options of changing how they preview on screen, and how they will print/plot.

you then have the option at the point of printing/plotting of controlling the entire layout's output style. i'm never sure which takes precedence . . . for example, if you have several placed drawings on one layout, some of which are set to output in colour and some in b+w, what happens if you choose the colour option for output? (something i've never actually had to do). does the colour-at-output option over-ride the b+w settings of the individual drawings? i know that it certainly works in reverse: i.e. b+w-at-output results in an over-ride of the colour drawings . . .

very confusing!

~/archiben

Re: Why are my fills (patches) solid black in PM !!??

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 20:57:39 GMT

I came in this morning, booted the computer, lauched AC and PM. low and behold my fill issues have miraculously healed themselves . While happy the issue appears resolved I am a little concerned and am hoping it was some bizarro fluke. If the issue arises again I will try to be a bit more specific about criteria and other apps open etc. For now, thanks to Djordje and Ben for your replies.

Re: Why are my fills (patches) solid black in PM !!??

Erika Epstein — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:09:22 GMT

I had something similar happen 2 days ago.
When I opened a plotmaker book and it s companion AC file, both v2 (from a mac, I'm on XP), in plotmaker all the fills looked and printed black. I had first told the lbk to read all from the AC file and then updated the book. It wasn' t until I had individually selected and updated the imported views by individual layout sheets that the fills displayed correctly.
I haven't had this 'effect' occur with any of my windows AC/plotmaker files.