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OrCAD X Capture 25.1 – PDF Export in Variant Mode Produces Extra Pages and Error Message

Kevcsc

Hello everyone,

I’m currently using OrCAD X Capture 25.1, and I’m running into an issue when exporting a variant schematic to PDF. Every time I generate a PDF from a variant view, the output includes two extra pages, and one of those pages contains an error message that looks like below. 

The actual error is captured as shown: 
" ERROR: syntaxerror

OFFENDING COMMAND: ----nostringval----

STACK:

/JS

/JavaScript

/Subtype

-mark-

/Action

[0 0 0 ]

/Border

[0 1 0 ]

/Color

[748 61 604 1196 ]

/Rect

1/

SrcPg

-mark"

 

This only happens in variant as exporting the main schematic works normally with no extra pages or errors.

Has anyone seen this behavior before or know what might be causing it?

Thanks in advance!

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  • Krissn
    +1

    The problem is one of the TCL scripts.

    Solution:

    Copy over capPdfUtil.tcl from working version of orcad/allegro (I used base version of 25.1 e.g. c:\Cadence\SPB_25.1\tools\capture\tclscripts\capPDFExport\tcl\) to your cadence and this should solve the problem.

    Shame on you cadence you can't provide fix for that quickly. Even latest 25.1 has no fix for that!

  • Krissn
    0 in reply to Krissn

    To be clear this is sketchy solution, but works

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  • Krissn
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    To be clear this is sketchy solution, but works

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