The table below controls how the drawing will process
from within AutoScript.

The color for any cell will be shown by name in the pull-down list box on the top left and by display example in one or both of the color-swatch boxes (labeled "Stroke" and "Fill") just to the right of the pull-down. The button in the upper left (here showing as "On") toggles any row on or off (output or no output) and always shows the on/off status of the current row, as does the "on" or "off" in the far left side of the far left column. 
  
Note that entities by category (text, circle, pline, etc) are the column titles to the right of "default color" and that there is a fill and a stroke column for each. This allows you to fill with one color and stroke with another color.

 
Processing Order - In this example (using entity colors - note: by layer is also available), the output is handled so that entities drawn in the color red are processed first, then those drawn in blue (color #7) are second and so forth. The order in which the colors are drawn can be easily changed by clicking the "Process Order" button (lower left of table). This brings up a small dialog with a list box in which you can drag the rows into a different order. 
 
Essentially you should think of each row in the same manner you think of printing one color after (on top of) another when screen printing. When preparing an AutoCad drawing for use in this manner you should think of the AutoCad color numbers as representing back-to-front images for processing. 
 

In this example in the exploded view on the left the rectangle is drawn in red, the ellipse in yellow and the text in blue. In AutoScript we set up a processing order in which red entities processed first, then yellow entities and finally blue entities. This produces the result to the right.     Please note: For this example, we used the same colors for output as the colors in which the entities are drawn. For example entities in red we filled with red. However, entities can be assigned totally different output colors by AutoScript. We could just as easily have created a gradient purple to azure color and filled the same red entities with that color.

We used the term "process rows" for what other programs might call a "layer," to represent bottom-to-top (or back-to-front) order of processing for portions of a full image (i.e. PhotoShop, Illustrator). The reason we did not use "layer" as our term was to avoid confusion with AutoCad's use of the term "layer." In AutoCad layers are not used to control order of processing. In AutoCad layers are arbitrary (usually descriptive names) used to group object categories within images. For example a drawing of a house might have the layer "PLUMBING" used to show plumbing pipes, sinks, toilets, etc. The layer "ELECTRIC" might show wiring, junction boxes. etc. 
  
File - This column controls which rows will be put together to produce output files Files are designated as "A" or "B" or "C" and so forth to "Z" at max.  
Each set of rows designated as a file produces a printing plate. You also have an option in the print dialog to send out each row as a separate file. 
  
Line width - Lines for entities in this row will be drawn to the width specified in the line width column. This setting defaults to an absolute width (that is the width is set for output on paper) or a world (scaled) width so that the size of the output proportionaly affects the width of the line. When polylines are given a width in the drawing that is the width assigned to that particular polyline. This includes polylines with varying widths. 
  
Default Color - This is the color used for the entity-color assignments unless changed by the user. To change a color assignment you simply click on the pull-down list box in the upper left and select one of the currently available colors. You can also highlight a range of cells and change the colors for that entire range of cells. 
  
EntityName Stroke (Outline) - This allows you to set a line-draw color for the named entity separately from any fill color. In the case in which you might choose a gradient color the first color in the gradient is used for the line color. 
  
EntityName Fill (Solid) - This allows you to set a color with which to fill an entity (separately from any line-draw color). These can be any of the colors defined as part of the drawing configuration file. In the case of PSFills or Solid Color Fills set in AutoCad these will be recognized as the drawing processes and will be substituted for any setting here. The reasoning is that if you specified, in AutoCad, a certain fill color then that color definition should take precedence (just like the polyline linewidth setting). 
  
Line Control button - This brings up a separate dialog which floats over the table view which allows you to make row-by-row exceptions to the overall (global) line-control settings. 
  
Edit Colors button - This allows you to edit and / or create color definitions.