Pen and color assignments

You can use this dialog box to assign the pens and colors used in Allplan to the pen thicknesses and colors of the printer. The settings are saved for the current printer or output channel.

For more information on color printing, see Printing color layouts.

The settings you can make in this dialog box depend on the following settings:

The output device used: you can only assign colors when a color printer is selected and the driver supports color output.
The setting for pen control.
The setting for the Color stands for pen option in Show/Hide: if Color stands for pen is selected, the dialog box displays the colors that are assigned to Allplan's pens 1 to 15 in the Options, Desktop environment, Pen colors. Otherwise, all 256 basic colors are displayed.

Pen thickness

Allplan pen - Printer pen

This is where you set how Allplan's internal pens 1-15 are to print. Allplan's pens are shown in the area on the left. The area on the right is where you set the thickness to be used when the pens print.

Note: When you select the Show effect of "Color stands for pen" option, the color assigned to each pen (using the Options - Desktop environment - Pen colors) is displayed.

Display

Show effect of "Color stands for pen"

When this option is selected, the colors that are assigned to Allplan's pens 1 to 15 using the Options - Desktop environment - Pen colors are displayed in the sequence of Allplan's pens.
When this option is not selected, all the 256 basic colors are displayed in ascending order.

When you open the dialog box, the setting of this option is equivalent to the setting of the Color stands for pen option in Show/Hide.
When you change the setting of this option, Allplan displays a message announcing that the setting in Show/Hide is used.

Show redefined properties only

When this option is selected, the two assignment areas at the top and on the right only display the pens and colors to which a different thickness or color has been assigned.
Clicking resets all pen and color assignments to Allplan's defaults.

More settings

The settings of the following parameters are the same as those you can find on the Print profile tab.

Print in color / Line colors using shades of gray / Line colors in black

You can specify how lines (and other 2D design entities like text and dimension text) are to print. Whether color printers print fills and bitmap areas in color or in shades of gray depends on the setting of the Fills and bitmap areas, grayscale option on the Print profile tab.
With the Line colors using shades of gray setting, the program internally converts the colors to shades of gray. Therefore, you cannot select actual gray scales in the list box.

Use a specific pen for everything

When this option is selected, the entire layout is printed using a single pen, which you specify here.

Gamma correction

You can specify how much lighter the printout is to be in comparison with the on-screen view. You can enter any value between 0 and 1.

= 0.5 neutral

>0.5 lighter than in the original

<0.5 darker than in the original

Colors

Allplan color - Printer color

You can specify how Allplan's colors are to print. The area on the left displays Allplan's colors in the sequence of Allplan's pens or in ascending order. The area on the right is where you set the colors to be used for printing.
You can select one of the 256 basic colors in the list box or define a RGB color by entering values for Red, Green and Blue.

Note: If Show effect of "Color stands for pen" is selected, the dialog box displays the colors that are assigned to Allplan's pens 1 to 15 using the Options - Desktop environment - Pen colors. Otherwise, all 256 basic colors are displayed. When color stands for pen is selected, you can define different printer colors for a color that has been assigned to several Allplan pens.

Tip: You can save the settings in this dialog box in print profiles. For more information, see Print profiles.
In addition, you can print the pen and color assignments in the form of a list by clicking the Print... button. When the Show redefined properties only option is selected, the list includes only the pens and colors to which a different thickness or color has been assigned.