Overview

Contents - Glossary - Job - Renderstyles - Settings - Viewing

Central to the processing of single and multiple files with is the Job File and Job Card.

A .JOB file contains any number of Job Cards, which is the orange bit.

It is the Job Card that defines the output products to be produced.

Each Job Card can be given a unique name.

As a minimum a job needs to consist of a DXF file as an "input" file and a "product" to produce e.g. mono, color or separation file.

When only a cad file is in loaded and processed, it will be processed according the programs internal defaults.

Or you can use a setting (.set) and Library (.rsl) file as inputs to process a DXF file for a very specific result that you want to achieve.

The following information shows what happens when a CAD file is processed without a settings or renderstyles file loaded.

There are also "default" scenarios for processing of files with a settings and renderstyles loaded.

Monochrome output using the internal defaults

• automatically convert all the cad colors to grey scale line work
• pick up the cad line type
• polyline widths
• produce all the text using the same font as the dxf file, when they are on the system
• scale extents values of the dxf file to fit onto an A4 page
• only those layers that are on will be processed
• automatically give the other line work a standard line width.

Black and white output using the internal defaults

• automatically convert all the cad colors to black line work
• pick up the cad line type
• polyline widths
• produce all the text using the same font as the dxf file, when they are on the system
• scale extents values of the dxf file to fit onto an A4 page
• only those layers that are on will be processed
• automatically give the other line work a standard line width.

Color output using the internal defaults

• automatically pick up the CAD color
• cad line type
• polyline widths
• produce all the text using the same font as the dxf file, when they are on the system
• scale the extents values of the dxf file to fit onto an A4 page
• only those layers that are on will be processed
• automatically give the other line work a standard line width.

Color separations output using the internal defaults

• automatically pick up the CAD color
• cad line type
• polyline widths
• produce all the text using the same font as the dxf file, when they are on the system
• scale the extents values of the dxf file to fit onto an A4 page
• only those layers that are on will be processed
• automatically give the other line work a standard line width.

The new layer names are placed at the bottom of the Layers list and processed with the renderstyle called "default".

If the layer is off or frozen in the cad file it will be seen as off by Cad Publisher and not appear in the output file.

If you don't want any rendering to occur to these additional and perhaps unexpected layers, you can set up the renderstyle called default to be "blank".

Or if you do want them to be rendered in a specific way, set up the renderstyle called default for that renderstyle library to do the job you want.