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    Print Organizer To Create Multiple PDFs

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    Using Print Organizer, you can create print definitions from MicroStation design files stored in ProjectWise to generate PDF plan sheets. Key steps include: 1. Open an existing print set template or create a new one to contain print definitions. 2. Add MicroStation design files to the print set, then select a print style to automatically generate print definitions. 3. Save the print set to ProjectWise to update the server copy. 4. Print all definitions to create a single or separate PDFs for each sheet, naming them according to a specified format.

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    Using Print Organizer, you can create print definitions from MicroStation design files stored in ProjectWise to generate PDF plan sheets. Key steps include: 1. Open an existing print set template or create a new one to contain print definitions. 2. Add MicroStation design files to the print set, then select a print style to automatically generate print definitions. 3. Save the print set to ProjectWise to update the server copy. 4. Print all definitions to create a single or separate PDFs for each sheet, naming them according to a specified format.

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    Using Print Organizer, you can create print definitions from MicroStation design files stored in ProjectWise to generate PDF plan sheets. Key steps include: 1. Open an existing print set template or create a new one to contain print definitions. 2. Add MicroStation design files to the print set, then select a print style to automatically generate print definitions. 3. Save the print set to ProjectWise to update the server copy. 4. Print all definitions to create a single or separate PDFs for each sheet, naming them according to a specified format.

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    Using Print Organizer, you can create print definitions from MicroStation design files stored in ProjectWise to generate PDF plan sheets. Key steps include: 1. Open an existing print set template or create a new one to contain print definitions. 2. Add MicroStation design files to the print set, then select a print style to automatically generate print definitions. 3. Save the print set to ProjectWise to update the server copy. 4. Print all definitions to create a single or separate PDFs for each sheet, naming them according to a specified format.

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    Using Print Organizer to Create Print Definitions

    You can use Print Organizer to create and manage prints — both paper and digital. The ODOT defaults
    are configured to easily create PDF print definitions. Print Organizer uses everything from the pen tables
    and printer driver configuration files to paper sizes and scales, in order to create print definitions for
    plan sheets automatically. Much of the setup is performed by choosing the desired Print Style during
    print definition creation.

    PSET (Print Set) Seed File or Untitled Print Set


    Print Organizer creates and uses print set (PSET) files as a container to store multiple print definitions.
    When multiple print definitions are saved, they are arranged in a hierarchical structure and may be
    placed into folder groups. A print definition stores everything about the print, except the displayed
    graphics: the file name, model, view, fence area, scale and size, and attached pen table. When the Print
    Organizer is opened, an untitled print set that has no folders is dynamically created. You may create
    your own folder structure if you wish and name the file when you save it. Alternatively, you may load a
    seed print set file.
    A seed print set file has been created for use in assembling contract plans. KeyNu.pset is located with
    the DGN seed files in your C:\ODOT\V10\Organization-Civil\ODOT_Standards\Seed
    folder and may be copied into your Windows project folders. For CONNECT Design Platform projects in
    the ProjectWise datasource, create and name your print set file using the Document Creation Wizard
    and the template named KeyNu.pset from Documents\CAD_Resources\Seed.
    The KeyNu.pset file contains named folders that are in order of the sections that are found in plan
    sets.

    Print Organizer Default Settings and View


    The Print Organizer is configured to load your system printer when it launches. If there are any errors
    on your system printer, it will cause tremendous slowness when working with the Print Organizer. For
    this reason, it is recommended to make your default system printer a “digital” printer, like Microsoft
    Print to PDF. All of the print styles that you may select when creating print definitions will cause the
    creation of PDFs and will not use a physical printer.
    Another default setting to be aware of is the Default Print Definition Name. When using CONNECT and
    a new or untitled print set, the name of your print definitions is set by a configuration variable to use the
    name of the model that is found by the print style. When plan sheets are created in individually named
    models, these default print definition names will save time in managing the print set.

    Note: We specify default print definition names by using the name of the model that
    contains your drawing when it is found by the print style. The available print styles
    either search for sheet-type models or rectangular shapes on a specific level in design-
    type models within the files you add into Print Organizer.

    It is highly recommended that the following View options be toggled on in the Print Organizer: Toolbar,
    Status Bar, Details, and View all Print Definitions.

    Source File View Preparation


    The files that contain drawings for plan sets in design-type models must have the last active view left
    print-ready. Print-ready means the displayed levels and orientation of the last active view are ready for
    printing without rotation. Save the file settings with an active view rotated so that border cells are
    aligned with the view axes. To do this, leave the view you will use for creating print definitions (the last
    active view) oriented to Unrotated, and place borders in the unrotated view.

    Note: If the last active view is rotated with respect to the borders, you will get strange
    scales and rotated previews in the Print Organizer when you create print definitions.

    Prior to creating any PDFs from your print definitions, remember that the data that is currently
    displayed in the view used for the print definition, is the data that will be seen in the PDFs. Adjust
    references and levels in the source files for the print definitions.

    Creating Print Definitions from Data Stored in ProjectWise


    The steps shown below will show you how to work with a MicroStation DGN file that is stored in a
    ProjectWise datasource, and use a Complete Project PSET created from the KeyNu.pset template
    seed.

    1. Open the Print Organizer dialog by clicking on the Print Organizer icon: on the Quick
    Access toolbar.
    2. Load a print set file such as, a Complete Project PSET file K99999_PSET_01.pset:
    a. Select File > Open in Print Organizer. This opens the Open Print Set File dialog to your
    active folder with a filter set to only display Print Set Files (*.pset).
    b. Select a Complete Project PSET and click [Open].

    3. Select a plan sheet section sub-folder in the left window of the Print Organizer and choose
    File>Add Files to Set…. This opens the Create Print Definitions dialog.

    Click [Add]. The Select Files dialog opens.


    4. In the Select Files dialog, use the Folder tree drop down arrow to navigate to the location of the
    DGN files containing drawings.

    5. Select and add DGN files containing sheets for the selected sub-folder to the “Selected
    Documents” list. The Select Files dialog stays open while you navigate in the ProjectWise folder
    structure, if necessary, to add more files from a different folder. When done, click [OK].
    6. On the Create Print Definitions dialog, click the […] button (Browse) to select a Print Style.

    7. Select a print style from the Apply Print Style dialog based upon the type of model that contains
    the drawing and the size of the intended PDF. Click [OK] on the Apply Print Style dialog.

    8. Click [OK] on the Create Print Definitions dialog. The print definitions are displayed in the Print
    Organizer.
    9. Choose File > Save to save the print definitions and push changes up to ProjectWise. Enter a
    comment on the Update Server Copy dialog and click [OK].

    If you close Print Organizer without saving, you will be prompted to Check In or Free the PSET
    file.
    10. To create a PDF file for each print definition in the entire print set, select the topmost folder on
    the left side in Print Organizer, then choose File > Print… or click the printer icon on the Print
    Organizer toolbar.
    11. The Print dialog opens and allows you to Submit as a Single Print Job for one PDF or Separate
    Print Jobs for a PDF for each sheet. It is highly recommended to set the Destination to the
    0_Temp folder in your project, where you can delete documents.

    12. To rename the PDFs to satisfy PDF naming requirements, click [Output File Names…].

    Type the following at the beginning of the expression:


    “K99999_”&
    Any text inside the quotation marks is used for each name; the 5-digit number should be the
    project key number, and the & symbol links the text with the print definition name.
    13. Click [Preview Names…] to open the Output File Names dialog and verify that the PDFs will be
    correctly named.
    14. Click the [X] to close the Output File Names dialog; then click [OK] on the Output File
    Expression dialog to accept the new names for the PDFs you will create.
    15. Finally, click [OK] on the Print dialog to generate the PDFs in the 0_Temp folder in ProjectWise.
    16. Open the ProjectWise Explorer to the project’s 0_Temp folder.

    The PDFs you created will be in 0_Temp and checked in.

    Save the Print Definition File


    The PSET file contains all the information about the print definitions and can be reopened in Print
    Organizer for printing single sheets from the print set or for reprinting after revisions are made to
    content.
    The print definition file does not contain any information about elements in the file. It does contain a
    fence location and when you request a print preview or a print, the print setup looks at the source file to
    determine which elements are currently displayed within the fence location. When you save the PSET
    file, it records the fence locations, the path and name of the source files, the paper size and scale.

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