Tis truly easy to print direct to a pdf from almost any application,
including Protel EDA. Adobe Acrobat and a large number of third party
PDF printer drivers are available. While Adobe's ~$200 package might
be a bit overkill for most of us, the third party solutions range in
price from around ten
I've beem using a free pdf writer for the last few months without problems.
The free version pops up an IE advertisement when it writes.
_http://www.pdf995.com/_ (http://www.pdf995.com/)
Regards,
Steve Allen
Project Engineer
Manufacturing Services, Inc.
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Trent Bates wrote:
I am trying to export one of my schematics to a customer. I am using Protel
99SE SP6.
The customer would like it in a pdf format or an Orcad format (.DSN file or
something of the sort) or something they could read from PSpice. I tried
saving one of my schematics as an Orcad
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From: Jon Elson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Exporting to pdf or Orcad or PSpice
Trent Bates wrote:
I am trying to export one of my schematics to a customer. I am using
Protel
Trent Bates wrote:
My system, although cumbersome, works. I output to a
PostScript file,
using a driver for one of the common color printers from HP, but
causing it to be saved
to a file. I then pull the file over to Linux and run it through
ps2pdf, to convert to
pdf
I am trying to export one of my schematics to a customer. I am using Protel
99SE SP6.
The customer would like it in a pdf format or an Orcad format (.DSN file or
something of the sort) or something they could read from PSpice. I tried
saving one of my schematics as an Orcad .sch file but
The quickest way I found to do this is to setup an Apple Phostscript
printer, and have it print to a file.
Then use www.ps2pdf.com to convert the PS files (make sure you name it .ps
when saving the prints) to PDFs. Worked fine so far.
You can also download ps2pdf yourself, using cygwin.
Cheers
Trent Bates wrote:
I am trying to export one of my schematics to a customer. I am using Protel
99SE SP6.
The customer would like it in a pdf format or an Orcad format (.DSN file or
something of the sort) or something they could read from PSpice. I tried
saving one of my schematics as an Orcad
Trent,
Using Adobe Acrobat or one of many other PDF writers, you can simply
select one of those types of programs to be your printer and save the
design to a PDF formatted file. Remember, all intelligence is lost.
You simply are making a pretty picture for somebody. It is however very
Get the full version of Adobe Acrobat or pdf995 (www.pdf995.com) or one of
the numerous free versions. Then you can print directly to pdf from protel.
(I use acrobat 6 and it works great) oh, and pdf is definately the best
option ;-)
Rich
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From: Trent Bates
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