PLT files in Publisher

[Anonymous]

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.

[TomWaltz]

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

[Link]

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.

[Rex Maximilian]

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!