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25.1 HF005 - PDF Export/Printing in BW?

Ulf K
Ulf K 2 days ago

Greetings forum,


My desire is to print schematics in BW and have them printed with thinnest possible wire widths.

For this, I have previously used CutePDF as print engine and Foxit PDF reader to view and from there print pages that I wanted.

Earlier, Cadence seemed to use GhostScript engine for PDF generation. Now with 25.1 HF005 it seems that Cadence have

written its own interface or embedded the GhostScript into the software. Anyway, there are no PDF options for quality in that

interface.


Now the print outs if using print to PDF are either in color with thick wires or when using Export->PDF that the wires are BW but thick.

I have looked around the the print setup menus for OrCADPS or CutePDF (or any other output format that is to direct

prints to .PDF.) Regardless of me defining BW, I cannot get what I want.


Having multiple versions of Cadence SPB in my computer, Windows also asks me if it should remove some of the OrCADPS

relating to older versions (than 25.1) something that I do not dare to even consider, since I accidentally removed them

earlier and it was not that easy to recreate them. This however perhaps a question that should be directed to the software build team.


If there are any PDF setting that controls the generated width of graphic lines, please let me know.

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