Not having print profiles, or a way to link specific printers to each
sheet template (and thus size) is a nightmare tbh... It practically
makes a mockery of the existence of the batch plot utility (from task
scheduler) - why have a batch plot feature when it can't automatically
work out the sheet sizes and thus printer settings? Have to pick out
all the files with one size sheet and batch those, then pick out those
with a different sheet size for a different batch - if you're
opening/closing each file to check the sheet size then why on earth
batch-plot anything?!?
We ran across this when deciding to move from physically plotted master
drawings to pdfs - soon realised that we couldn't batch generate a load
of these pdfs from our idws as they're all different sheet sizes 😞
much grumbling ensued...
on a side note - as others have said, it's very unwise having 25 sheets
in a single idw... Historically there were issues with idw stability
and corruption, so would lose all that work, instead of a single sheet -
not heard of corruption problems recently, but you never know (all your
eggs in 1 basket, as they say). But, more importantly - how much extra
memory is the system using when working with this file? Far easier on
the system (and thus arguably quicker) to just use a separate idw per
sheet and only have the idws open for the sheets you're working on.
On 01/06/2010 21:40, TOMSHERWOOD4282 wrote:
> anyone else encounter this problem? is there a way around it?
