About Creating or Modifying a DWF6 Configuration File

Customize the settings of DWF6 plotter to change the file output.

You are not likely to change the settings in the DWF6 ePlot Properties dialog box often. However, when you need to make some subtle changes to your DWF6 ePlot configuration, you can do so through the DWF6 ePlot Properties dialog box. You can specify settings for color depth, display resolution, file compression, handling of fonts, pen settings, and other options. When you create DWF6 files, you use a plotter configuration file that uses a DWF6 driver. You must use the DWF6 ePlot.pc3 file to plot DWF6 files.

The DWF6 ePlot.pc3 plotter configuration file is the default driver for the PUBLISH command. You can use the DWF6 ePlot.pc3 plotter configuration file as installed, or you can modify it using the Properties button in the Plot dialog box. This invokes the Plotter Configuration editor, where you can make changes directly to the DWF6 ePlot.pc3 file. Although you can save DWF6 ePlot.pc3 files under other names to use with the Plot command, no other name works with the PUBLISH command. Any changes you make to the DWF6 ePlot.pc3 file are used whenever you plot or publish DWF6 files until you change the settings of your DWF6 ePlot.pc3 file again.

Note: If you are going to make changes to the DWF6 ePlot.pc3 file, make a backup copy of the file first in case you want to use the default settings later. If necessary, the default DWF6 ePlot.pc3 file can be re-created with the Add-A-Plotter wizard.

These settings may change file size and plot quality, depending on the content of the source drawing for the Design Web Format™ (DWF™) file.

DWF files intended for plotting should be configured with a white background color. If the background color is set to black, color 7 objects are plotted as white. For all other background colors, color 7 objects are plotted as black.