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Change the plot background to White

Pecman
Pecman over 5 years ago

Sometimes, I want to take a screen shot of the plot in cadence for documentations. Black background is not clear after taking the screen shot. I can change it to white background. But when I change to a new plot, I have to set it again. 

I am wondering if there is a way to set the default plot background to white so that all my plot back ground will be white.

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  • ShawnLogan
    ShawnLogan over 5 years ago

    Dear Ocean,

    Did you happen to see this reply from Andrew regarding the background color?

    community.cadence.com/.../1368448

    Andrew suggests the background default can be set using the following:

    envSetVal("viva.graphFrame" "background" 'string "white")

    in your .cdsinit file.

    I started a new Virtuoso session, launched ViVAXL and opened a data base to plot a waveform and noticed the background color was now changed from my default of "calc" to "white".

    Shawn

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  • FormerMember
    FormerMember over 5 years ago in reply to ShawnLogan

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  • Pecman
    Pecman over 5 years ago

    It works now. Thanks a lot!

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  • ShawnLogan
    ShawnLogan over 5 years ago in reply to Pecman

    Dear Pecman,

    Excellent! Thank you for letting us know!

    Shawn

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