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How to print report to pdf

Tolo1996

Hi Everybody,

I am working on a script that generates documentation. I would like to attach a file containing board information and a pick and place file to the assembly drawings. 

I would like to use a report generation tool to create such files and then combine them into one.

I was able to generate the necessary files and attach them to the drawings using the function: 

a=axlRunBatchDBProgram("pdftk" mytext ?silent t ?noUnload t) 

where mytext contains nessesary data like file names etc. And its works, the problem is that the report that i generate using this line:

axlReportGenerate("RAPORT" t "RAPORT.html")

Generate .html file, and i would like to print it into pdf file and then attached it into main file. Butt how to do this? 

I thought you could use the function:

axlShell("setwindow form.report_tab")

axlShell("FORM report_tab print")

Of course, it's not so easy, because nowhere can I find the name of the form responsible for the report

To be clear what I'm talking about, I would like to use the script to "press" the selected button and print the file in a given location

reportview

Another possibility would be to do this by calling an external program, e.g. AcrRd32

Many thanks for your help and advice!

  • axlPdfView() can be used to Display a PDF file from Allegro PCB Editor. If just the filename is given, attempts to find the PDF file using Allegro PCB Editor’s PDFPATH variable. Displays the PDF file in an external PDF viewer. On UNIX, the only supported PDF viewer is Acroread. windows uses PDF registered in the windows registry hope 

  • in reply to SandeepVarrier

    Well i need to create that PDF first, so my question is rather how to  print a report to a pdf file. In the manual there is a description of saving the file to .txt or .html format. Is it not possible to automatically print the report? Using some scripts command? 

  • I found a solution on my own. The easiest way to print a report in pdf format is to use the Edge browser. It has the advantage that the viewer of Html files built into Cadence does not read them correctly (the tables are problematic) 

    We generate a report and save it to an HTML file:

    axlReportGenerate("RAPORT" t "RAPORT.html")

    Then we call the microsoft edge program (you can also use chrome):

    The pattern of the function looks like this:

    "patch to msedge.exe" –headless --print-to-pdf ="patch where to save pdf""patch to html file"

    I created a few strings to make it easier to pass it to the function:

    Pdf = "C:\\Users\\a.pajewski\\Desktop\\Projekt\\output\\RAPORTPN2P.pdf"

    Html = "C:\\Users\\a.pajewski\\Desktop\\Projekt\\output\\RAPORT.html"

    ms = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft\\Edge\\Application\\msedge.exe"

    And we pass it to the function:

    mytext=sprintf(s "%s  -headless --print-to-pdf=%s %s" ms Pdf Html)

    Run the program with skill levels:

    axlRunBatchDBProgram(ms mytext ?silent nil ?noUnload t ?noProgress t)

    Done

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