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printing with stippled shapes or patterns

Ejlersen

Hi

I'm currently doing a large revision of my PDF generation utility but have run in to a number of challenges.

By default placebounds are shown as stippled - however doing plot makes them filled instead of stippled.

I've tried putting patterns on them as well, but the patterns does not look nice - they seems to look stribed.

Have anyone experimented with this and have any tips to share. I've also tried playing with the transparency settings to dimm the placebound shapes - but that did not help

 

Best regards

Ole 

  • Hi

    Another possible solution for me could be to be able to plot shapes using transparency - there is a user variable named "pdf_filled_shape_transparency" but this seems to be tied to the Export->PDF functionality.

    Anyone know how this could be Applied to standard file->plot function

    Best regards

    Ole

  • Hi Ole,

    I don't have a solution for you because I long ago gave up on the idea of using the Allegro tools to produce assembly drawings.

    An alternative that is available to Skill writers is to use the power of SVG and XSL FOP to produce really smart drawings out of Allegro. There's a steep learning curve but using this opens a whole new world to you. I can give you a few hints, some examples and some starting routines if you are interested.

    Cheers,

    Dave 

  • Hi Dave

    Thank you for your answer.

    I'm certainly interested in any hints, examples etc. that you could provide. Whether it will help me, I don't know - but its certainly worth a try.

     

    Thanks in advance. 

    Best regards

    Ole 

  • Hi Ole,

    Attached is a small example of what can be done quite easily.

    Open the Skill code to get instructions for installing FOP and running the code.

    I have more code for converting Allegro objects to SVG that can be included in the XSL format but it's not really in a good public state.

    Let me know if you want to go down this path and we can talk further - maybe offline.

    Cheers,

    Dave 

    fopEg_Public.zip

  • Hi Dave

    Thank you, I downloaded and tried your code - that works nicely.

    I've looked over the SVG documentation and realize that if I'm going down that route - it's a complete i/f function from Allegro to SVG that I need to write. Not sure that I'm ready to do that, at least I don't have the time to do that now.

    I'll have to do account for all objects, map colors,  text sizes etc. 

    At the moment, I'll leave my initial thoughts and try to pursue another way to get closer to what I want. 

    But I really appreciate your input on this and at one point I might use it as a starting point for enhancing my pdf generator.

     

    Best regards

    Ole 

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