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How I can plot directly a pdf - file without plotting a ps - file before

Peach99

When I want to plot the schematic I only can plotting a ps - file. But now I can convert this file to a pdf - file. My question is how I can plot the schematic directly to a pdf - file. I think I have to change the .cdsplotinit - file but I don't know how I can do this. Can anybody help me please.

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Daniel Pietsch

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  • What I included in my original post were the .cdsplotinit settings for Cadence to create pdf files. Yes, the .cdsplotinit converts from postscript to pdf during the spooling process, but the end result to the user is a pdf file. You don't have to do the conversion yourself. Am I missing something else?

    1. Copy the above settings into a .cdsplotinit file in your home directory.
    2. Modify the settings to include the name of the postscript conversion program that you use. Be sure that it can accept input from stdin. The spool option is essentiall doing this: cat postscriptFile | ps2pdfConversionScript -
    The dash argument tells the conversion script (ps2pdf13 in our case) to accept stdin.
    In our environment, ${LOGNAME} evaluates to a user's login name in Unix. You can replace this with a hardcoded value if you'd like, or reference a different environment variable. Another example:
     :spool=ps2pdf13 - > /tmp/plot_schematic.pdf ; (acroread /tmp/plot_schematic.pdf &): \
    3. Open Cadence and plot a schematic by choosing  one of these printer names: PDF_600dpi, PDF_3000dpi or PDF_1000dpi. When the plot is finished, it will be opened automatically in acroread.

    Derek

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  • What I included in my original post were the .cdsplotinit settings for Cadence to create pdf files. Yes, the .cdsplotinit converts from postscript to pdf during the spooling process, but the end result to the user is a pdf file. You don't have to do the conversion yourself. Am I missing something else?

    1. Copy the above settings into a .cdsplotinit file in your home directory.
    2. Modify the settings to include the name of the postscript conversion program that you use. Be sure that it can accept input from stdin. The spool option is essentiall doing this: cat postscriptFile | ps2pdfConversionScript -
    The dash argument tells the conversion script (ps2pdf13 in our case) to accept stdin.
    In our environment, ${LOGNAME} evaluates to a user's login name in Unix. You can replace this with a hardcoded value if you'd like, or reference a different environment variable. Another example:
     :spool=ps2pdf13 - > /tmp/plot_schematic.pdf ; (acroread /tmp/plot_schematic.pdf &): \
    3. Open Cadence and plot a schematic by choosing  one of these printer names: PDF_600dpi, PDF_3000dpi or PDF_1000dpi. When the plot is finished, it will be opened automatically in acroread.

    Derek

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