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Plotting to PDF in Design Entry HDL

dd2661

I am having issues plotting a Design Entry HDL 17.4 schematic to a PDF.  When I go to plot, there is missing text and graphics along the bottom and right hand margins, much like this post from 2010: https://community.cadence.com/cadence_technology_forums/pcb-design/f/pcb-design/16587/problem-of-plotting-a-schematic-in-design-entry-hdl. Adjusting the layout, page size, and percentage fit does nothing.

It seems that this bug has not been fixed, and the publish PDF feature recommended in the previous post is unavailable in my license pack.  Does anyone have a solution for printing a PDF of a schematic while retaining all text and graphics on a single page?  I have rifled through every imaginable option in the plot settings and no luck.  This is a very basic function of any schematic entry tool, and I'm absolutely amazed that this bug has not been addressed in 14 years...

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 

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  • jc teyssier
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    I use pdfcretaor and no problem except automatic rotation . Automatic mode brings random rotation so i force the rotation.

    Works well for me

  • dd2661
    0 in reply to jc teyssier

    Do you just screen capture PNGs as input then?  What if your schematic sheets are large and a PNG doesn't have enough resolution to convert faithfully?

  • jc teyssier
    0 in reply to dd2661

    PNG? Why?

    In concept, File->Plot Setup

    "Fir to Page"

    "Set Plot Margin to None"

    "Sheet Contents"

    oprtionnaly "Black and white"

    Plotter -> PDFCreatot,

    set size and orientaiton, In "Properties" set resolution to 1200dpi (better result for me)

    Then in concept File->Plot

    "Plot Range -> All (or Hierarchy)"

    This open PDFCreator: in setup set manually the orientation (seems to be a bug with "automatic")

    then you are done

    PDFCreator:

    https://download.pdfforge.org/download/pdfcreator

    Works well for me

    Jean-Charles

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  • jc teyssier
    0 in reply to dd2661

    PNG? Why?

    In concept, File->Plot Setup

    "Fir to Page"

    "Set Plot Margin to None"

    "Sheet Contents"

    oprtionnaly "Black and white"

    Plotter -> PDFCreatot,

    set size and orientaiton, In "Properties" set resolution to 1200dpi (better result for me)

    Then in concept File->Plot

    "Plot Range -> All (or Hierarchy)"

    This open PDFCreator: in setup set manually the orientation (seems to be a bug with "automatic")

    then you are done

    PDFCreator:

    https://download.pdfforge.org/download/pdfcreator

    Works well for me

    Jean-Charles

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  • Andrew Beckett
    0 in reply to jc teyssier

    Jean-Charles - to answer your comments in your appeal when this went into moderation; the reason is that external URLs are an automatic flag for potential spam. Of course, in many cases they are not - but in an enormous (much, much larger numbers) they are linking to dubious content and we protect the many users of the forums this way (we didn't do this in the past, and had frequent spam attacks). It's an inconvenience of course when you have a genuine external link (and a human does indeed read the appealed posts, which is why I approved this), but I can guarantee you would not want the volume of spam that this approach is preventing.

    So my apologies for the additional step you had to take to get the post approved.

    Regards,

    Andrew

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