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bindkey to plot.il

thecalman

 I need to set a bindkey to schPlot("plot.il"), which I can do alright except that I need to have the outputfile to be different each time so that I am not overwriting anything!

I was thinking maybe append a date/time string to a base filename.  I tried to use the getCurrentTime() function but I need to format it somehow! for an example, I would like "Mar 1 05:23:37 2010" to be "03.01.2010.052337" and then concat this to become my outputfile. ex. "myplotfile_03.01.2010.052337.ps".  Could someone please help me.

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  • You can setup a spool entry in your .cdsplotinit to do everything in one step:

            :spool=ps2pdf13 - > /tmp/plot_${LOGNAME}.pdf ; (acroread /tmp/plot_${LOGNAME}.pdf &):

    We use the above line to send the stdin as output by the plot command to ps2pdf13 (the dash tells this command to read stdin). This is redirected to a file using the environment variable called $LOGNAME in the filename. When finished, acroread is invoked to open the pdf file.

    I tested this out and found that you can use setShellEnvVar("MYFILENAME=abc") before plotting. You can then use the MYFILENAME variable instead of LOGNAME in the spool line. This way you can dynamically change your file name in Cadence, plot to the printer with the spool line that automatically converts to jpg and wrap everything in a foreach loop to get it done.

    I hope that helps.

    Derek

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  • You can setup a spool entry in your .cdsplotinit to do everything in one step:

            :spool=ps2pdf13 - > /tmp/plot_${LOGNAME}.pdf ; (acroread /tmp/plot_${LOGNAME}.pdf &):

    We use the above line to send the stdin as output by the plot command to ps2pdf13 (the dash tells this command to read stdin). This is redirected to a file using the environment variable called $LOGNAME in the filename. When finished, acroread is invoked to open the pdf file.

    I tested this out and found that you can use setShellEnvVar("MYFILENAME=abc") before plotting. You can then use the MYFILENAME variable instead of LOGNAME in the spool line. This way you can dynamically change your file name in Cadence, plot to the printer with the spool line that automatically converts to jpg and wrap everything in a foreach loop to get it done.

    I hope that helps.

    Derek

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