Graphics Formats

The Graphics Formats options let you customize options for importing HPGL documents, and for exporting drawing representations to other formats.

This page discusses:

Import (Viewer)

Lets you choose the pen characteristics to be taken into account when opening an HPGL document.

To define the pen characteristics, click Configuration... then select the appropriate pen options.

Export (Save As)

These options let you define advanced configuration options for drivers when saving a drawing representation to another format through Share > Export.

Properties

Choose the save format for the drawing representation, and then click Properties... to define the corresponding configuration parameters.

Parameters
Lets you define general parameters.

From the list, select a format then click Parameters....

Current sheet
Saves only the current sheet of your drawing representation when exporting the document to another format using Share > Export.
All sheets
Saves all the sheets of your drawing representation when exporting the document.
Save multisheet document in a single file

It lets you save all the sheets of your drawing representation in a single file.

Current image at beginning

Displays the current sheet of the drawing representation at the beginning of the generated output file. Other sheets are displayed according to their order in the tree.

Exclude Detail Sheets
Lets you exclude detail sheets from printing when exporting a CATDrawing document with multiple sheets, whatever the format.

If you select this check box, use the following two boxes that are case-insensitive as required:

  • Expression defining sheets to be Included: lets you enter the text string that should be contained in the name of the sheets to be printed.
  • Expression defining sheets to be Excluded: lets you enter the text string that should not be contained in the name of the sheets to be printed.

True Color, Greyscale, Monochrome
  • True Color keeps original colors.
  • Greyscale converts colors to greyscale. This creates a smaller print file.
  • Monochrome converts all non-white colors to black.
Gamma factor (from 0.1 to 5.0)
Lets you define the gamma factor to be applied.
Print white vectors in black
Converts the color of white vectors to black so that they are visible when printed on a white paper.
Print text blanking
Prints the blanking of texts.