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Plotting as a graphic guarantees that the text is printed as displayed, at the
expense of slowing down the plotter and using more memory. Plotting as
TrueType text prints faster and uses less memory; the plotter may use a different
font for printing.
■ TrueType as Text: Plots TrueType text as text.
■ TrueType as Graphics: Plots TrueType text as graphics.
Merge Control
On raster plotters, controls the appearance of lines that cross. Merge control
is not effective if your plotter is configured to plot everything as black or if
you are using PostScript language.
■ Lines Overwrite: Uses the last plotted line to obscure the lines under it. Only
the topmost line is visible at the intersection.
■ Lines Merge: Merges the colors of crossing lines.
NOTE Merge control may appear as an option for system printers that do not
actually support the feature. Please check your printer's documentation to
determine if merge control is supported.
Custom Properties Node
Modifies the device-specific properties for the plotter configuration. The
settings for each plotter vary. If the plotter manufacturer has not included a
Custom Properties dialog box for the device driver, the Custom Properties
option is not available.
For some drivers, such as ePlot, this is the only tree view option that is
displayed. For Windows system printers, most of the device-specific settings
are made in this dialog box. For more information about the custom properties
settings for your device, choose Help in the Custom Properties dialog box.
Initialization Strings Node (for Non-System Plotters Only)
Sets pre-initialization, post-initialization, and termination ASCII text plotter
strings, which send commands to a plotting device before and after the
program initializes the device and after plotting is complete.
If you are plotting to an unsupported plotter in emulation mode, you can
specify ASCII text initialization strings that prepare the plotter for printing,
set device-specific options, and restore the plotter to its original state. You can
also use initialization strings to turn on or off a plotting device feature that
is not supported by the program.
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