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Hierarchical schematic print (IC6.1.8)

CSCNalu
CSCNalu over 1 year ago

Hi

I'm trying tp send a hierarchical schematic to a collaborator of ours via PDF and I've managed to get the color (postscript2) plotter enabled for our copy of IC6.1.8 however when I try to send a hierarchical schematic to the PDF printer it only saves the last cellview as a PDF - is there a way I can either change the name (an input argument I can pass to ps2pdf) to represent the cellview or a way to append to ps2pdf?

I'm using IC6.1.8-64b.500.32

I'm using the following PDF/postscript "plotter"

PDF_6000dpi|Large Postscript: \
:type=postscript2: \
:spool=ps2pdf13 - > /tmp/plot_${LOGNAME}.pdf ; (acroread /tmp/plot_${LOGNAME}.pdf &): \
:resolution#6000: \
:maximumPages#3000: \
:paperSize="A" 48000 63000 1500 1500:

I'd like to think I can manage to replace ${LOGNAME} with some variable like CELLVIEWNAME or something but I"m not sure what the cadence arguments/variables are - I can do some kind of post process combining of PDFs or something but at the moment it looks like it only saves the last one and keeps overwriting them.  I can see from the log file that all the instances in the hierarchy are PDFed but gain, the PDF is just the last one.

Thanks

Chris

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