PLOTTING UPDATE 2.

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The Plotting Update 2 modifies hardcopy drivers and DLLs in Autodesk(R)

products that use version 6 of the Heidi(R) hardcopy subsystem. These products
include AutoCAD(R) 2000, AutoCAD(R) OEM 2000-based applications, AutoCAD(R)
Mechanical 2000, Mechanical Desktop(R) 4, AutoCAD Architectural DesktopTM 2,
AutoCAD Map(R) 2000, and AutoCAD LT(R) 2000.

This update does not apply to products using version 7 of the Heidi(R)
hardcopy subsystem, such as AutoCAD 2000i.

This update is needed for compatibility with AutoCAD 2000i PC3 files. Note,
this update contains the May 2000 versions of the Oce and Xerox Heidi 6 HDI
drivers, which have not been tested by Autodesk.

The Plotting Update is a self-extracting zip file. Its installer runs

automatically.

The installer checks the registry to see which Autodesk products are installed.
If you have more than one Autodesk product installed, you are asked to select
the product you want to update. It is recommended that you update all listed
Autodesk products.

FILES THAT ARE ADDED OR UPDATED BY THE PLOTTING UPDATE

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The file locations of the following files are relative to your AutoCAD
directory unless you have changed the default Options for these locations.

addplwiz.exe
hcreg6.dll
heidi6.dll
oletohdi6.dll
pc3edit.dll
plcfmgr.dll
plotcfg6.dll
pmutil6.dll
styleeng.dll (only updated for some products; see Note below)
drv\calcomp6.hdi
drv\calcomp6.drc
drv\dxb6.hdi
drv\dxb6.drc
drv\gdi6.hdi
drv\gdifont6.hdi
drv\hpgdi6.hdi
drv\hpgl26.hdi
drv\hpgl26.drc
drv\hpgl6.hdi
drv\oce6.hdi
drv\oce6.drc
drv\raster6.hdi
drv\raster6.drc
drv\xerox6.hdi
drv\xerox6.drc
help\drv_ccp.cnt
help\drv_ccp.hlp
help\drv_dxb.hlp
help\drv_hpgd.hlp
help\drv_oce.hlp
help\drv_oce.cnt
help\drv_xrox.hlp
help\drv_xrox.cnt

FILES MODIFIED IF YOU ALREADY HAVE THE FIRST PLOTTING UPDATE INSTALLED
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addplwiz.exe
hcreg6.dll
plcfmgr.dll
drv\calcomp6.drc
drv\oce6.hdi
drv\oce6.drc
drv\xerox6.hdi
drv\xerox6.drc
drv\raster6.drc
help\drv_oce.hlp
help\drv_oce.cnt
help\drv_xrox.hlp
help\drv_xrox.cnt

PLOTTING UPDATE CONTENTS

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Optimized HP System Driver. This driver includes the following enhancements:

- Plot file sizes are greatly reduced on Microsoft(R) Windows 95/98.
- Detaching and reattaching a PMP file no longer causes an error.
- Modified paper sizes display the correct units.

Add Plotter Wizard. The wizard now installs updated drivers. HIF files are
now language independent. The wizard now lists only drivers which match its
Heidi version.

Arc gaps. The arc gap problem is fixed in the generic HP-GL/2 driver and
in the Xerox and Oce drivers.

OLE object plot quality. Several OLE plot quality problems are fixed. The
system path for OLE objects is restored to the Release 14 state. OLE plot
quality on system printers has been improved for Landscape paper sizes
because they can use the system path. Portrait paper sizes are still
forced to the lower-quality raster path.

If you are plotting a monochrome OLE object such as a Microsoft(R) Excel

workbook, reducing the right-click OLE object plot quality to "Line Art"
may help improve the quality of objects plotted using the raster plotting
mechanism. If you are using a driver that supports the raster graphics
pane in the PC3 Editor, sliding the "Balance" slider to the right also
improves the resolution of OLE objects that are plotted to the raster path.

HP-GL long plots. HP-GL plotters can now handle long plots (The driver
produces absolute coordinates instead of relative ones.)

HP-GL DraftPro and other old HP-GL devices. These devices can now plot E size
sheets. (The driver produces absolute coordinates instead of relative
ones.)

Microsoft(R) Windows 2000 plotting. This type of plotting is enabled.

Random crashes with various Windows system drivers. Enhancements have been
made to the GDI6.HDI driver to fix random crashes with various Windows
 system drivers.

HP LaserJet. The HP-GL/2 non-system HDI driver now has A3, B4, and B5 paper
sizes. A new "100 shades of Gray" color depth choice is available, and merge
control is enabled (only for this color depth). Raster plotting problems
are now fixed.

HP 7600 series. Enhancements have been made to the HP-GL/2 non-system HDI
driver to fix problems affecting the HP 7600 plotter series.

CalComp driver. A non-system driver supporting most CalComp plotters has been
added.

DXB driver. A driver that plots to the Autodesk DXB file format has been added.

COM port queries. AutoCAD no longer queries COM ports when configuring a
plotter.

Version display. The General page of the PC3 Editor shows the version number
of the DRC file in use. The version number appears in square brackets
to the right of the driver version number.

True Type text quality. This responds to TXTQUALITY for all text styles.

The configured paper size in PC3 files is now followed when new layouts
are created.

HP ColorPro CAD error message. Users of the HP ColorPro CAD may experience
an error "The media size is invalid" when they select a paper size in
the Custom Properties dialog box and have this Plotting Update installed.
If you receive this error message, you are probably using version 4.20
of the HP system driver, and you need to download the latest driver
from the Hewlett-Packard web site. Version 4.22 or later of the HP
system driver fixes this problem.

Raster file driver. The raster file driver now can plot undithered bitonal
(monochrome) raster files (such as CALS and TIFF), when a monochrome
plot style table is used.

Note: the following fixes are applied only to AutoCAD 2000, AutoCAD Architectural
Desktop 2, and Mechanical Desktop 4. They do not apply to any other products:

Pen plotters. Pen plotters now respond reliably to physical pen assignments
made in Plot Style tables.

Virtual pen assignments. Virtual pen assignments are now respected.

Virtual pens on CalComp plotters. If you used virtual pens with a CalComp
plotter in Release 14, you had to define just "pens" in your CDCL
file. With AutoCAD 2000, it is also necessary to define "colors" because
they are used for area fills such as wide plines and True Type text.

The following CalComp devices allow you to defined both colors and pens
in CDCL: the TechJet Color GT, the GT/PS, the TechJet Designer, the
68000 series EPPs, the Drawingmaster series, Solus 4, and Econografix.

The following CalComp plotters only allow you to define colors at the
plotter's control panel: the EconoPro, the TechJet Designer 720, and
the TechJet color. If you have one of these plotters, don't try to define
 colors using software, because the color definitions will be ignored by
the plotter.

A Microsoft(R) Word document, CALCOMP_VIRTUAL_PENS.DOC, is in the driver

directory where the CalComp HDI driver is installed. The document
explains how to define colors in software, using CDCL.

The following is a brief summary of the CALCOMP_VIRTUAL_PENS document.

You must create a color (RGB_COLOR) for each pen you define. First
define the color, and then define a pen (COLOR_PEN) mapped to the color
you just defined.

RGB_COLOR(color#, R, G, B)
Color# Same as physical pen number
R Red value 0-100 percent saturation
G Green value 0-100 percent saturation
B Blue value 0-100 percent saturation

COLOR_PEN(pen#, width, color#, line type)

Pen# Virtual pen number used by AutoCAD
Width Width of pen in plotter units (pixels);
for example, for a 400 DPI raster plotter
a 2mm line is 31 plotter units
(2/25.4)*400 = 31
Color# Color number to map to, as defined above
Line type MAJOR, FLAT, ROUNDED or SQUARE

The following is an example CDCL file.

&&&&CALCOMP DEVICE CONTROL

* Universal PIN number
USER_PIN(8378)
* Color 1 is RED
RGB_COLOR(1, 100, 0, 0)
* Pen 1 is mapped to color 1, 4 pixels wide, rounded end
COLOR_PEN(1, 4, 1, ROUNDED)
* Color 2 is Yellow
RGB_COLOR(2, 100, 100, 0)
* Pen 2 is mapped to color 2, 31 pixels wide, major end
COLOR_PEN(2, 31, 2, MAJOR)
* Color 3 is a 25% gray
RGB_COLOR(3, 25, 25, 25)
* Pen 3 is mapped to color 3, 10 pixels wide, flag end
COLOR_PEN(3, 10, 3, FLAT)
^^^^END OF FILE

Other possibilities are available. For example, some CalComp devices support
PAT_COLOR(ALL,255,0,0,0) to set all pens to black, instead of using RGB_COLOR
to set each pen's color. Please refer to your CalComp CDCL manual.