Printing several layouts with Windows drivers (batch mode)

Printing in batch mode

As opposed to printing in batch mode using Allplan vector drivers, you can specify the output device, paper format and print profile for the selected layouts when you use Windows drivers.
If the defined page format is not available as a paper format for the output device, similar formats can be used.

Printing in batch mode can be very time-consuming. It is therefore a good idea to check the settings before you start printing so that you can identify and solve potential problems in advance.

To print several layouts with Windows drivers

1. Click Print Layouts (How).
   

   Activate Print Layouts in one of the following ways

   • Menu bar: Create Layout

   • Toolbar: Basic Tools Layout flyout
   • Palette: Tools Create area in the following module(s):

   Assembling layouts

2. Select Windows driver in the Settings area on the Printer tab and choose the output device you want to use.
3. Click the button to the right of Layout in the Selection area and use the Layout structure to select the layouts you want to print in batch mode.
4. Specify the output device, paper format and print profile in the Output multiple times area.
5. If you want to write all the layouts to a print file and you have not explicitly installed the driver using the FILE option, select the Print to file option in the Output mode area.
6. Select the file type and specify the path where the print files are to be saved. (Allplan proposes the folder set in the Options on the Desktop environment page, Save/load area, Folders for saving option; you can accept this folder.)
7. Enter a file name and click Save to confirm.

   The specified name plus the start number 0001 is used for the first unnamed layout. The names for the other unnamed layouts are numbered in ascending order. For example, the name of the print file is Layout. So the first unnamed layout is given the name Layout0001; the other unnamed layouts are then named Layout0002, Layout0003 and so on.
   For named layouts, the names of the layouts are also used for the names of the print files.

8. Click Start to conform the settings and to start printing.
9. The proposed file names are displayed in the Print file dialog box. To change a file name, click it.

   The test log provides information on possible printing problems.

10. If necessary, cancel the operation, solve the problems and start again.

    When all the layouts have been printed, an output log is displayed.