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Greg
Joined: 13 Apr 2004
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Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
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 Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 9:07 am Post subject: Black color for all... |
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The "Black color for all" command has always seemed curious. It does in fact enable printing to a B&W printer without having objects greyed, but once applied, the previously assigned layer colors are "lost". (of course you can back out of it with an undo, if you remember – or your can re-assign all the colors with a select all). Wouldn't it be nicer if the "Black color for all" were like a toggle?
Along the same lines, the print in "Black & white" under the Drawing setup/print prefs is not very useful because although darker colored lines print as black, lighter colored ones print as white, along with fills. A more useful approach would be that all lines print as black, while fills print in greyscale. This would make printing to a B&W printer very nice. I don't know how easy this would be to implement.
Any comments? |
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CJH
Joined: 24 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 10:11 am Post subject: |
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| No!! The 'Print in B&W' works exactly as it should. Many use white fills as a mask to hide linework behind the fill (this is one of those wonderfull little things that Acad can't do), and printing that white fill as greyscale would defeat this. If you want a fill to print in greyscale, you should use a greyscale fill. The tool should print as close to the screen image as possible-all colors go to black, greyscale and shaded fills to greyscale of the same density, and white to white. |
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patrickm
Joined: 13 Apr 2004
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Location: santa barbara, ca
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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| I am with CJH -- I like the way 'print in b&w' works! |
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