My client has been using a "printer" driver called WinLINE to process line colors into a .PLT file with lines of differring thickness, according to the colors used in the drawing in Autosketch. Here is the WinLINE website http://www.winline.com/
It uses a carosel of color associations to associate colors with line thickness.
For example, source color Red is transformed into a Black line of thickness 0.13mm; and source color Green is transformed into a Black line of thickness 0.5mm.

They have been using an older version of the driver that only runs using Windows 98. It seems to work nicely, but it would save a lot of time and effort if we could update to the latest version (v8) that runs under Windows XP. The problem I am having is that these two versions seem to be behaving differently.

The older version of the software's color association carousel looks like this:
http://img.waffleimages.com/8c1564153780bb77b59474ca7a047acd6e64eef2/OldDriverScreen.jpg

It produces a nice drawing in which all lines are black and of differing thicknesses, appropriately, and the color Green is translated to a line that is of a lighter shade. However, I don't see in this carousel setup screen where the lighter shade is specified so I don't know how it knows to make the target line look like this.

The newer version of the software's color association carousel looks nicer, and includes a "Target Color Density" option, which I would think I could set to 50% under the Green association to get the same effect as the above older driver. However, all lines still come out looking 100% Black. I can also select "50% Black" as the target color, instead of just Black. Still, all lines come out looking the same 100% shade of Black.


If there is another way to do this, I am open to other ideas and would be grateful to hear them. I need to be able to translate drawings of different pen colors from Autosketch into Plot files, PDF files, vector files, that can transform the pen colors into vector lines of differing thickness.