Need Help with Publishing

[Conrado Dominguez]

Do we have to apply the print options to each item inside Publisher.?

In Plotmaker 3.1, I drag about 6 drawings into the publish dialogue window.
My goal was to have 6 quick 11 x 17" print.
a)The print set up was checked for correct size.
b)the print settings was checked for selected items, and
c)the print options was set to "Shrink largest layout to 35% and apply this to all"

Well, this latest option was applied only to the selected drawing.
If I select all the drawings in the list, for uniformly set all the drawings, all the printing controlling options are grayed-out.

So I have to go, one by one, and apply the " shrink largest.............." to each drawing.

Is there any way to apply uniform printing options to all the drawings in a layout book when using the Publisher.


Conrado
AC8.1, PM 3.1; printing to an HP Laserjet 5000N

[__archiben]

conrado

put the layouts into a folder:

the yellow folder icon button at the top of the publisher drawing list well will create a new folder, alternatively, if you have your layouts in subsets, drag a whole subset folder across into the publisher list . . .

then just select the folder - the publishing options are applied to each layout within it. you will see the 'print setup' and 'print settings' are no longer greyed-out, (but 'print options' are. haven't quite figured that out yet . . .)

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[Djordje]

Conrado wrote:
Is there any way to apply uniform printing options to all the drawings in a layout book when using the Publisher.

Why do you have to Publish? Simply Print - the whole layout book, or the selected layouts.

Or am I missing something?

[Conrado Dominguez]

Thanks Ben, I'll try putting all the layouts into a folder.


Djorde:
Why "Publish instead of "Print"

Because I was in the Publishing Windows, I saw the Print option and I wanted to experiment. I was following Murphy's Software Law # ???: "If you know how to do something, trying some other way maybe better, but never easier"

Thanks to you guys, now I know better

Conrado

[Djordje]

Conrado wrote:
Djorde:
Why "Publish instead of "Print"

I answered my question myself today (the usual DUH procedure of ArchiCAD Talk)

There IS a reason for Publishing to printer - if you need different printer setup in the same LBK. I was (trying to) shoot out a LBK that had color pages that had to be printed with high quality and 3 times as much plans, sections and elevations that needed only B&W and that were quite OK i 360 dpi. So - the only way I could find (between printer runningout of ink and the company's server crashing, never mind two power cuts - I am on a laptop) is to Publish.

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