Creating a PDF "Adobe" in PDMS?

I define the line thicknesses in PDMS using the pen numbers in representation styles. This way I can create a pdf by simply printing it black-and-white, and I don't have to bother with colors...

Hi pzg...thanks for the reply...that sounds exactly what I need...

I know about representation rules and the pens...
But how do you assign a thickness to the pen ?
And Black and white plot...I was wondering about that also...

I've been using the plot.exe to produce the plot file and simply assumed thats how it always came out...colour that is...

Would you mind at all and elaborate on the above...I just looked in the manual and couldn't fingd anything on black and white...found something interesting on representation rules...Design Change Styles...but as naormal with the manuals couldn't really ynderstand i's application...

Cheers
Neil

Just realised where the Design Change Style is used...Graphics>Update>Design Changes...

I've never used that command before...

Yes, you should change the represantation rules. You can define different styles for diferent types of elements. A good start is to copy a rule set from the master project, and to start playing with it. You can change the linestyle settings by changing the ...pen attributes (e.g. fpen, bfpen, plpen, etc...) of a STYL element. Everything is coded into that real number. For example pen number 32 means an approximately 0.1 mm thin yellow dashed line. 36 is a 0.5 mm thick yellow solid line, 14 is a thin red chain-line, 1 is a simple thin white line. etc...

And I use the plotviewer.exe and plotserv.exe for plotting. They are only avalable in v11.6, but can plot older plt files as well.

Hi...thanks again for your reply...

I've also used the plotviewer.exe but as soon as I save as PDF all lines are the same thickness...(but I've only been using 1 to 4, 11 to 14 etc) ...the only line that is thick is a grey line...but this is because it's a number of lines side by side...

I've been setting my representation rules this week and they are looking good...

I don't really want to use the thick lines as they are a bit too thick for the draft session...as some of the work is detailed...saying that I may have to resort to this if I can't find another way...

Could mess with it on monday...I'm trying to find a distiller PDF as previously mentioned by Tback...

Tried PDMSForum suggestion of ghost writer..it works...one problem I had was that when I loaded ghost writer it goes by default to "Program Files" AND SYSCOM commands can't handle spaces...so I had to load it to C:Programs...

Now I'm producing pdfs on batch...does anyone know if I can add my own refinement to the lines using :-

try-ps|ps|PENS ATTR,\
               ATTR  1 1 SO N,\
               ATTR  2 2 SO T 1.0,\
               ATTR  3 3 CH T 2.0,\
               ATTR  4 4 SO T 3.0,\
               ATTR  5 5 CH T 4.0

Cheers
Neil

Can you merge plot files ?

I'm asking as I may want to issue a PDF..but with a "preliminary" stamp accross the front..or "issued for information only" etc.

So my idea is to have a plot file file with above text on it and merge it with the drawing plot file as I create a PDF...

I'm using ghostscript to produce my PDF..

Hi,

what is the color number for the mauve color in the postscript soft drivers ATTR [COLOR="red"]X X[/COLOR]so T 4.0

sorry I found my error, only when you do the PDF through ghostscript you can  personalize the PDF with pdfmarks