Rhino 6 Automatic print Layout Bug

[fabio]

Hi Steve,
sorry to disturb again.
I found another problem with the Layout printing.
I automated the printing in Rhino 5 and everything works well.

When I try to print with Rhino 6, the same code, the same file and the same Pdf Creator ,
It doesn’t work.

1. the automatic printing stops and ask to confirm the single layout.
   ( error- no autoprint- nofocus on layout.jpg )

2. the focus on the layouts ( _SetActiveViewport )seems to work.
   how you can see in " error- no autoprint- nofocus on layout.jpg " , it is on Layout 9,
   but the printing window remains on the first Layout (02 in this case) and prints the Layout 2
   with the name 05, 07, 09, 22.

I attach a print-screen showing how I set Pdf Creator 1.4.0 to automatic printing.
( PdfCreator 1.4.0 config.jpg )

Using Rhino 5 It works correctly and sends the files into the correct directory (…\stampa)

Using Rhino 6 It stops,ask to confirm the single layout and sends the (wrong)file into the same rhino

file directory.

To launch the print I created a button with this macro:

! _-RunPythonScript “F:\Rhino Lavori\2018 - Cantiproject\Print_Layout.py”

The Python script is:

import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs
import scriptcontext as sc

page_views = sc.doc.Views.GetPageViews()

for a in page_views:
actlay = “-_SetActiveViewport " + a.PageName + " " + “_Enter”
rs.Command(actlay)
cmd=”-_SaveAs " + a.PageName + ".pdf " + “_Enter”
rs.Command(cmd)

I attach the Bug automatic Layout Printing.zip file with inside:
Rhino 5 .3dm file and the correct printed pdfs.
Rhino 6 .3dm file and the wrong printef pdfs.
The python Prin_Layout.py

Bug automatic Layout Printing.zip (730.6 KB)

Thanks in advance for your help,
Fabio

[stevebaer]

Hi Fabio,
You might want to check out this post as an alternative way to print individual PDFs in V6 from python

Print Layouts to PDFs - One layout to one PDF?

When Rhino prints layouts to PDF, all layouts are printed in a single PDF. i want to print layouts to PDF’s separately, one layout to one PDF in a defined folder. The PDF’s use layout names. it should be automatic, because i have 100 Layouts, and i change mein model very often. i mean, if i chang my model, i must overwrite the 100 pdfs one time. someone had idea? it will be very very helpful.

[fabio]

Hi Steve,
thanks for your reply. The script was very useful.
So thanks to Jorin Chi too.
I have to change only the value of the size to “size = System.Drawing.Size(11.69dpi,8.27dpi)” and the print folder.
For me it work OK.