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Creating .PDF using Tcl/Tk Utilities in Capture 16.3

Goblin60

 All,

Here's somthing a little different. I'd like to export a .pdf using the application found in  Accesories--->Cadence Tcl/Tk utilites. This gizmo (when working) produces a searchable pdf which allows one to click on components within the pdf and see properties. I've seen this work in older versions of software. Here's the hitch; I need the postscript driver path for the .pdf editor Bluebeam. I can also use the postscript friver path for Adobe Acrobat Distiller but I prefer to use Bluebeam. Attached is a .png that shows you what I am refering to. Any info will be appreciated.

Cheers,

Ron Scott

  • oldmouldy

    I found the HP Universal Print Driver PS to work fine with Windows 7 64 bit, you can get this from the HP site but "any" Postscript printer installed with the "Port" set to "Print to File" will work. I name the printer "Postscript", then the capPdfUtil script can be modified at ::mPSDriver "Acrobat Distiller" to be ::mPSDriver "Postscript" to get the Postscript driver preselected, rather than edit in Postscript every time I run it. Keep a copy of the modified script and a note of the changes in case the code gets overwritten in an update and you need to put your changes back into the updated code.

  • hobbss

     Thank you for all the suggestions.  I ended up installing the HP universal driver and then editing the tcl file.  Everything works perfectly now.

     I have given up trying to figure out why it worked intially.  The only thing I can think of is that I must have had some weird printer setting that got reset when I rebooted my machine

  • andresberge

    I needed to do this and your help was really useful, which is greatly appreciated.

    Is there a vesion of the Tcl script that also allows to click on a net and go to the other locations of that net?

    Thanks!

    Andres

     

  • Kuenga606

     Hi Andres,

    Do you want to locate the net on the same page or in the whole design ?

    In 16.3, we have 'Signals' menu present on the RMB of the net, to locate the net in the whole design and can be used to select net on a page also. Are you facing problem using this menu command ?

    Thanks

     

     

     

  • hmkr
    If you generate the Net Bookmarks (default is ON) during PDF export, that shows the list of the nets with all connected component pins. That might help you a bit. For off-page connectors, the RMB option is present on the off-pages in the generated PDF to traverse through the connected off-pages.
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