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Pdfcreator and plot option issue

Max Niark
Max Niark over 4 years ago

Hi Community

I'm a designer on Allegro Design PCB 17.4. I've an issue with the option " plot" . 

I need to export PDF file of my job, since long time my process is to use "PDF creator" and plot option for export my design to PDF, on 17.2 this is work very good, but not on 17.4. 

The scaling is not automatic ... my sheet is A2 plot, and when i select A2 scale for a better export ( fit to page) nothing happend .. the scale is setup on A4, and it's impossible to change and register the setup .. the problem is the same for the page orientation ( vertically or horiizontaly) the setup is always on vertically ... . i had change all of setup, everywhere ... 


i need your help bro ! :)

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  • Max Niark
    Max Niark over 4 years ago

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  • steve
    steve over 4 years ago in reply to Max Niark

    Try the File - Export - PDF, you should get a better result with this.

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  • Max Niark
    Max Niark over 4 years ago in reply to steve

    I can't cuz is not the company process. My customer need someting precisely. 

    And when i select file-export-pdf, there is an issue too.. its export a bad layer .. i've look my artwork setup, its great .. so .. x) 

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  • steve
    steve over 4 years ago in reply to Max Niark

    Ok make sure you are running the latest version. If you go to Help - About you'll see the version number. The latest is 17.4-2019 S017. You can get that from Download Manager or from http://support.cadence.com. I believe the plotting issue was fixed in a hotfix.

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  • Max Niark
    Max Niark over 4 years ago in reply to steve

    Yeaaaah thks, i've the 17.4-2019 S010. i'm going update the soft

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