Mtext and Polylines Won't Plot

[bachrock]

I'm trying to plot a large poster (108" long) onto a 36" wide roll of paper. The image, texts, and leader plotted fine; the polylines and mtext did not. Everything shows up in the preview, but the two mentioned items don't actually get plotted onto the paper.

[Organic]

What layers are the polylines and mtext on? (i.e. not DIMS etc)

Are the layers set to individually not print? (in layer properties manager, there is a printer icon next to each layer)

[bachrock]

What layers are the polylines and mtext on? (i.e. not DIMS etc)

Are the layers set to individually not print? (in layer properties manager, there is a printer icon next to each layer)

To test whether it was a layer issue I moved the mtext and polylines to a layer that I had dtext on that printed. I don't know what DIMS is.

[ReMark]

DIMS. Maybe Dimensions?

[bachrock]

DIMS. Maybe Dimensions?

I still don't understand the meaning of everything insides the parenthesis from original sentence:
"In other words, not dimensions etc." (modified)

This problem I'm having though, no idea what to do.

[ReMark]

Did you verify, in the Layer Properties Manager, that the printer icon for the two layers that fail to print do NOT have a red diagonal line through them? Yes or No?

Are the polylines and Mtext that do NOT print on the layer that you use for your dimensions? Yes or No?

[rkent]

Where are the plines and mtext, PS or MS? Are they on top of the image entirely or partially?

Where are the text and leaders, PS or MS? Are they on top of the image entirely or partially?

What is SHADEMODE set to, either in a viewport or in MS if only working from MS?

What do you have merge control set to, overwrite or merge? (This is in the plotter properties under graphics.) Try the opposite of what is set now.

[bachrock]

Did you verify, in the Layer Properties Manager, that the printer icon for the two layers that fail to print do NOT have a red diagonal line through them? Yes or No?

Are the polylines and Mtext that do NOT print on the layer that you use for your dimensions? Yes or No?

Yes and No. I mentioned earlier that I moved the mtext and polylines to a layer that I knew was printing dtext. That was my test to see if the layer they were on was the issue.

[bachrock]

Where are the plines and mtext, PS or MS? Are they on top of the image entirely or partially?

Entirely.

Where are the text and leaders, PS or MS? Are they on top of the image entirely or partially?

Entirely.

What is SHADEMODE set to, either in a viewport or in MS if only working from MS?

2dwireframe. It says I can't set a visual style in PS.

What do you have merge control set to, overwrite or merge? (This is in the plotter properties under graphics.) Try the opposite of what is set now.

Overwrite. I would quickly fire off a test page if I could, but this printer is large and takes a long time to print. Plus, it's wasteful to use all the ink. Do you think this is likely enough to work that I should try it?

[rkent]

You didn't say if they were all in MS or PS.

Are the mtext objects in PS?

Are the leader in PS?

If the plotting and non-plotting objects are in the same place, PS for instance, then the overwrite shouldn't matter. When testing window a small area and use a small paper size for testing.