Publish

Load Sheet List

Loads a saved sheet list.

If the current list is not saved yet, you are prompted to save it.

A File dialog displays. Select a *.dsd (Drawing Set Description) file, then double click or click the Open button.

Choose whether to Replace the current sheet list or to Append the sheets in the *.dsd file to the current sheet list.

Save Sheet List

Saves the current sheet list to a a *.dsd (Drawing Set Description) file.

Automatically load all open drawings.

If checked, adds the model and/or  paper space layouts of all open drawings.

If not checkked, adds the model and/or paper space layouts of the current drawing only.

Sets the value of the PUBLISHALLSHEETS system variable.

Include

Determines which sheets must be included.

The options are: Model, Layouts, Model & Layouts

Add Sheets

Adds sheets to the current list.

Displays a File dialog.

Select a drawing. All layouts in the selected drawing are added to the sheet list.

If a sheet name already exists, a dialog box displays prompting you to enter a new name.

Remove Sheets

Deletes the selected sheet(s) from the current list.

Arrange Sheets

Allows to move selected sheets up or down or to reverse the sheet order.

Drawing

Path and name of the drawing of the currently selected sheet.

Layout

Layout name of the currently selected sheet

Sheet List

Sheet Name

Layout name of the sheet.

Page Setup

Page Setup name of the sheet.

Click the down arrow on the list button to select a different page setup.

Choose Import... to import page setups of another drawing.

A File dialog displays: select a drawing, then double click or click the Open button.

All page setups in the selected drawing are available in the Page Setup list button.

Plot Device

Name of the plot device as defined in the Page Setup of the sheet.

Plot Size

Size of the paper in the currently selected page setup.

Orientation

Paper orientation in the currently selected page setup: Landscape () or Portrait ().

Scale

Scale of the currently selected page setup.

Status

Status of the currently selected page setup.

Publish to:

Allows to choose the output target of the Publish command:

• Plotter named in page setup.
  
  

• Number of copies: sets the number of copies for each sheet to be printed.

• Include plot stamp: if checked adds a plot stamp. Click the Edit Plot Stamp button () to change plot stamp data.

• PDF
  
  

  

  Output as PDF

   

  

• Output location: Click the Browse button () and select a folder.

• File: Select an option:

• • Single-Sheet files: each layout is published to a separate pdf. The file names are: <drawing>_<layout>.pdf

  • One Multi-sheet file: layouts are published to a single file. You can choose to specify a name or to be prompted for a name when the publish procedure starts.

• Layer information:

• • Don't use layers: no layers are exported.

  • Use all layers with visible entities: only layers which are current ON and Thawed are exported.

  • Use layers with entities, including OFF and FROZEN layers: all layers containing entities are exported.

• TrueType Text:

• • TrueType text can be either exported as text or converted to geometry. The latter option ensures that the text in the PDF looks exactly as in the drawing. Converting to geometry increases the file size and pixelation might occur when viewed at a high zoom level.

  • Embed TrueType fonts: If the font is not embedded, a substitute font might be used by the PDF viewer. Please notice that licensed fonts cannot be embedded.

• Merge Control: Determines whether overlapping lines are merged or lie on top of each other.

• • : the lines on top overwrite the lines below.

  • : the colors of crossing lines are blended into a new color.

• Image anti-aliasing: If the resolution of an image is too low to match the Image DPI setting then the raster image is anti-aliased (generate pixels artificially) to make the raster image look more smoothly. Without that setting an image with a too low resolution is embedded "as-is".

• JPEG image compression: This setting applies to all included raster images in the PDF, both raster images and rendered views). It applies a jpeg compression to these images to reduce the PDF file size. When switched off, the images are embedded as raw bitmaps. The Jpeg compression is lossy compared to the raw bitmap introducing small imperfections).

• Vector DPI: Controls the resolution of vector graphics and gradients.

• Image DPI: Defines the resolution of the resulting image in the PDF for raster images. This setting allows to lower the resolution of the original raster image in order to avoid including a gigabyte raster image in the PDF. For printing the resolution should match the output resolution of the printer. For on-screen viewing  high resolutions (2400 dpi +) are required.

• Render DPI: Defines the resolution of the resulting image in the PDF for rendered viewports (3D visual styles). This setting is used to generate the rendered view image at that resolution specific for the PDF.

Publish in background

The BACKGROUNDPLOT system variable controls whether documents are published in the current session or in a BricsCAD session running in the background, which allows to continue working while printing.

Publish

Publishes the current sheet set to the selected output target.