Publisher Error

[CadDog]

Hi everyone,

I'm having a problem with a few stations not being able to work publish batch plotting.

We select 3 or more drawings, select layout tabs only, highlight and select which Page Setup to use. Select the Publish and here is the error we get:

I was able to rule out any profile by only using the out of box autocad setup...

"?What does: Incompatible or mising plot style" mean...???
All these drawings have been plotted long hand before using these setting...

Any help or clue will be welcome...

Thanks

[scott.wilcox]

It appears AutoCAD cannot find the plot style. Perhaps it is in a different location that the support list shows.

My workaround is to always import a page setup from a template and apply it to all layouts in the publish list.

[CadDog]

Thanks Scott...

I try that but our template file didn't have any plot styles save so
select another style from the frist sheet and this time it worked...???

The frist style I selected, which did NOT work, was named: OCE_TRUE_HALF
The next style I selected, which DID work, is named: Half Size

Do you think that those underbars "_"have something to do with it...???

I did check and all but one the drawings have OCE_TRUE_HALF but all had Half Size plot sytle in them...

Does the style need to be within the drawing you select...???

Thanks

[scott.wilcox]

The style needs to be in the location specified in the support file path list for plot styles. Each layout saves the style name associated with that layout.

[CadDog]

OK Scott,

Here another queston...

Is there a way to ask (tell) AutoCAD in publisher to just Plot Previous...???

I can plot the first one and use that as my setup all other plots...

Here is what I have used in the past as a quick key...

(COMMAND "-PLOT" "" "" "PREVIOUS PLOT" "" "" "Y" "" ) )

Is the a way to have publisher to use something like this...???

Thanks again for you answers...

[scott.wilcox]

You can plot them all at the same time, just highlight them all and apply a page setup to all the layouts.

Like I said earlier, I import from a template file, but you can also import a page setup from another drawing file as well. Perhaps you can create and save a page setup with the desired settings, and use that for subsequent plots.