Topic: .ctb file unrecognized

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I've got some plot styles from a local city, .ctb files.

I can't get these .ctb files to shot up in my plot style table when I print....when I try to edit the .ctb files, they tell "unrecognized version and cannot be read" I click ok, another window opens and says, "syntax", I click ok, another window opens and says "could not load file".

Anyone have ever any issues like this?

[mjfarrell]

please send me a copy of said CTB file

and Que esque vous s'employ meme version?

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Well, we are still in 09, the City, whom we got the .ctb files from are in 2010, but they say all their standards are in 2009.....I can't imagine a .ctb would care what version you're in.....also, we do have 2010 installed on one machine, and I couldn't get them to show up on the print screen on that machine either.....file attached, I think...

[mjfarrell]

there must be something about it...compare the file size(s) to your working CTB files

[Matt__W]

WOW!!  48kb??  My largest CTB file is on 7!  The rest are 5.

[banner]

Yeah, tell me about it...ours are anywhere from 5 to 7.

I just figured they've edited more colors from the default settings

[mjfarrell]

so, let those folks at the city know that their CTB file is BLOATED like a dead cow

[M-dub]

WOW!!  48kb??  My largest CTB file is on 7!  The rest are 5.

I wonder if someone took some other filetype and renamed its extension.  Filename.dwg > filename.ctb

Don't laugh... I've met people who thought that would be a fine thing to do.

[mjfarrell]

opening with word or Excel I can read what look like a lot of standard layer names....

[JCTER]

WOW!!  48kb??  My largest CTB file is on 7!  The rest are 5.

I wonder if someone took some other filetype and renamed its extension.  Filename.dwg > filename.ctb

Don't laugh... I've met people who thought that would be a fine thing to do.

DING DING DING, we have a winner!

It's a drawing file.

It contains 4 text styles, a few dozen layers, and not much else.  One text object.

Someone at the city made a bit of a blunder.

[mjfarrell]

and probably a named page setup...that uses their desired CTB (if they used the file we started in class together)

[Matt__W]

DING DING DING, we have a winner!

It's a drawing file.

It contains 4 text styles, a few dozen layers, and not much else.  One text object.

You beat me to it...  The first line when opened in Word tipped me off: AC1015

[M-dub]

I just thought 45K seemed to be about the size of a .dwg file.  Lucky guess. 

[JCTER]

If you look at theSwamp as a toolbox, there are all kinds of tools in it and each of them has their use.  Some tools are more ... multi-purpose than others, but they all have their time to shine.

I just thought 45K seemed to be about the size of a .dwg file.  Lucky guess.  

Today, YOU'RE the shiny tool, man!

[M-dub]

I just thought 45K seemed to be about the size of a .dwg file.  Lucky guess. 

Today, YOU'RE the shiny tool, man!

I am going to print this thread and stick it on the fridge when I get home!