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Launching PDF from a link in PDF (Orcad PDF Export)

BK2001
BK2001 over 5 years ago

This post is in response to a youtube video posted by Parallel Systems, UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXQCP3ppmDo

At 2:38 the presenter clicks on a part, then clicks on one of the properties (datasheet link) and it spawns the datasheet pdf.

Does anyone know how to make this work?

I've tried Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, but Link: Auto-Create Weblinks from URLs...  doesn't do it.

Are there other settings?

This looks like something that is very useful!  Should be a customer requirement for the next release!

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    0 RFinley over 5 years ago

    Ah, another feature for engineering laziness that can really cause blood to shoot out of my ears.  Like P*DS.

    There's a plugin for Capture CIS on the plugin store.   Point to the part occurrence, click "ctrl-L"  for the data sheet pdf.

    At least CIS has a broken-link fix option with Part Manager "Update Part Status".

    As any CIP admin will tell you, manufacturers do not preserve their URLs.   We have 4000+ Murata MPNs in CIS/CIP and Murata new web features breaks all URLs when they deployed "Sim Surfing"..

    Mouser serves data sheets from their domain for their own sanity.  And, there are engineers who only want to see the latest version of the datasheet pdf.

    May have to deploy a private datasheet http: server to prevent "PDF decay."

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    0 RFinley over 5 years ago

    Ah, another feature for engineering laziness that can really cause blood to shoot out of my ears.  Like P*DS.

    There's a plugin for Capture CIS on the plugin store.   Point to the part occurrence, click "ctrl-L"  for the data sheet pdf.

    At least CIS has a broken-link fix option with Part Manager "Update Part Status".

    As any CIP admin will tell you, manufacturers do not preserve their URLs.   We have 4000+ Murata MPNs in CIS/CIP and Murata new web features breaks all URLs when they deployed "Sim Surfing"..

    Mouser serves data sheets from their domain for their own sanity.  And, there are engineers who only want to see the latest version of the datasheet pdf.

    May have to deploy a private datasheet http: server to prevent "PDF decay."

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