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Additional settings: ENCAD printers
Pen Settings: In AutoCAD 2000, pen settings such as lineweights, colors, hatching, fills
and shading are handled in AutoCAD plot style pages.
Copies: Select the number of copies to plot at plot time on AutoCAD's "Plot Device"
page.
Polygon mode: Polygon mode, available as pen setting in Release 14, is not available in
AutoCAD 2000. Use AutoCAD commands to fill regions with a solid hatch.
Color Palette: This AutoCAD 2000 HDI Driver uses AutoCAD's standard 255 color
palette.
Four-head mono: available.
Custom properties
Plot quality: Select the quality of the plot. Select from the list of predefined quality
levels. Or select Use Printer Settings to use the quality level defined by the settings at
the printers control panel. Or select User Defined to make detailed selection of printer
parameters that affect plot quality. For some printer models, Quality will be limited to
Normal for 600 dpi plots. See also: "User Defined Quality"
Plot color merge control: Controls the appearance of the intersecting elements.
Merge colors: All colors at the intersection will mix together. The intersection might be
darker or a different color and may cause the ink to bleed.
Colors overwrite each other: Only, the top (last) layer will plot. Be careful that some
elements may be masked by others using this mode. Using overwrite gives you the
ability to mask out some elements from others. For example, you can fill an area with
color, mask a part of the area with white color, and add a title in the white area to make it
stand out. Use AutoCAD's DRAWORDER command to specify the plotting order.
Output format: The driver can send data to the printer in either of two printer lan-
guages, ENCAD RTL (Raster Transfer Language) or HPGL/2.
ENCAD RTL format: Your computer will do most of the processing of the plot image
and send raster data to the printer.
HPGL/2. format: Vector data is sent to the printer in a vector format, and the printer
does most of the image processing. HPGL/2 data format is usually much more compact
and is produced more quickly by AutoCAD and the driver than the RTL format.
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