I would like to print in black and white in DraftSight, anyone know how to do it ?
In the print window, there are the " Print Style Tables" in the " Additional Options".
You can choose " MONO.slb " or " monochrome.stb " (supplied with the software), but when previewing before printing, it is still in color !
The only solution is to go to the printer's properties, and under the " quality " tab (in general), you can choose a style option: " Black and white " (instead of grayscale or color) or " print with black ".
But it would be more convenient if it's a DraftSight setting, because you wouldn't have to change every time.
Thanks Rim-b, but this box was well checked, and I still have the color preview!
Thank you Yves, but if I leave this setting for all prints, when I print a report with a gray frame (or text highlighted in gray) from our ERP, this dial appears black, the same color as the text and is therefore illegible!
In fact, it is an old question to print a color drawing in monochrome.
The easiest way is to use the monochrome configuration available by default in the print settings. Do not touch the printer itself. Then, go around all the existing colors in the drawing.
If all the drawings made are identical (use of the same colours throughout), identify each type of colour and determine the desired thickness. Often, in the "monochrome" parameters, line thicknesses are defined less than 0.18 (feather size for those who knew this era of plotters). In fact, many printers fail to "trace" below this size. If this line appears as a dotted line or gray, change to 0.25.
In conclusion, force all the colors used in black (color 7 = black on a white background or White on a black background), pass strokes as defined above and vary according to the different types. Common values:
0.2 - 0.3 - 0.5 - 0.8 - 1 - 1.2 and 1.5. Enough to draw well as in the past (Rotring and Faber Castell). After that, you'll be the king of monochrome.
Tip: Take "monochrome" and modify it and not create another type. Draftsight suffering from alzheimer's in printing, you are sure not to mess up.
In PJ a small internal company note concerning this theme for our applications. (Revision of plans from Tell)
To follow Coyote's answer, changing the color of the feather to Black is not always enough to avoid graying them out, you must also pay attention to the width of the feathers. Finally, for this to work, you need a real printer (or at least a virtual PDF) to be set up or selected in Draftisght to have access to the configurations.
Small point about monochrome.stb files. When you upgrade Draftsight (update), it creates a monochrome file for each version. Remember to search for the most recent directory.
I also renamed the directory with all the configurations so that Draftsight could regenerate it, so old pans can disappear. I did say rename and not delete (to be able to go back. If when you restart Drafsight it does not regenerate the latter directory, it is simply because it was not the right one. And yes, he has a sense of humor! We have already encountered this type of funny behavior...
After seeing your drawing, it too weird. In fact, there are print styles specific to your drawing that are locked and impossible to purge. It's related to the drawing and not to your Draftsight.
Questions:
- Is this the only drawing like that?
- Is Draftsight a recovery of others?
- Is the drawing used elsewhere (and with the same problem)?
If your drawing (view) is good elsewhere, insert your drawing as a block in a working drawing. I tried and everything is back to normal (but I don't have the cartridge anymore...).