Figure prints BLACK

[Laura Yanoviak]

What used to be a Picture (JPG) pasted into a Master Layout in AC9 to create our Cover Sheet titleblock, now prints as a solid black sheet in AC10. I've tried recreating the Masters within AC10 via the Figure Tool with the same result. What am I missing???

[__archiben]

Laura wrote:
What used to be a Picture (JPG) pasted into a Master Layout in AC9 to create our Cover Sheet titleblock, now prints as a solid black sheet in AC10. I've tried recreating the Masters within AC10 via the Figure Tool with the same result. What am I missing???

for some reason, imported jpg's, tiff's, whatever get a background colour assigned to them. i haven't seen it with newly created 10 files, but i get a nasty yellow for all my figures in a migrated AC9 file. change the background fill pen in the drawing tool settings (yes really!) and it goes away . . .

~/archiben

[Anonymous]

~/archiben wrote:

change the background fill pen in the drawing tool settings (yes really!) and it goes away . . .

Really? And how do you do that exactly?

Hunter.

[Laura Yanoviak]

I don't see this setting either.
BTW -- I tried placing the JPG via the Drawing Tool with the same undesirable results...

[__archiben]

Hunter wrote:
And how do you do that exactly?

damn! you're right! how did i do it?!

i had a whole bunch of placed drawings from a migrated 9 file with a horrible yellow background that i managed to switch back to normal. i'll get back to you . . .



~/archiben

[__archiben]

okay - upon reviewing that PM9 file, all of my placed jpg's or tiff's were black and white images. after migrating, switching their colour setting from 'Original Colours' to 'Greyscale' fixed them up.

i've imported a whole load of colour images into the same layout book and cannot reproduce the problem with colour images.

what i have discovered: if you drag and drop a JPG from your file system onto a layout it comes in as a 'Figure' element, but if you right-click and choose 'Place Drawing...', navigate to that same JPG and place it on the same layout it becomes a "Drawing' element.

maybe you could exploit that different and replace your JPGs in a way that allows you to edit them as needed . . . ?

just a thought. sorry about the misleading info to start with . . .
~/archiben

[Laura Yanoviak]

Placing the JPG as a Drawing (not a Figure) and switching the Color setting from 'Original Colors' to 'Grayscale' seems to do the trick. Curiously, our company logo is placed as a Figure on our typical titleblock Masters and print just fine...

[vfrontiers]

I, too, had this problem... And it also happened with PLACED VIEWS from ArchiCAD... My blueprinter was going to shoot me for printing totally black pages!..(in a PLOT FILE, which after placing back into plotmaker showed the same completely black drawing)

Found the little checkbox in the PROPERTIES of each drawing for TRANSPARENT BACKGROUND.... That seemed to do the trick..

[Laura Yanoviak]

vfrontiers wrote:
Found the little checkbox in the PROPERTIES of each drawing for TRANSPARENT BACKGROUND.... That seemed to do the trick..

This did not work for me -- the Transparent Background setting still produced a black box -- it wasn't until I set the colors to Grayscale that it printed correctly.