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PDF Export successful but no file generated

xraybox

Im using the Tcl/Tk unitility to export an intelligent pdf of my schematic. (Allegro Design Entry CIS 16.6 on Windows7 64 bit)

I've got all the paths set correctly

Postscript Drier:PDFCreator
PS to PDF Converter Ghostscript  

Windows pop up during the coversion.  The first ones are too fast to read but I assume they are the conversion to postscript.  Then a second window pops up saying "Printing file on the and the PDFCreator on PDFCreator Page #"  where # increments.  The utility finishes successfully. However when I look in my destination folder there is no pdf there.   

Any idea what is going on?  I've copied my output log below.  

 

(::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Output Directory : N:/Electronics/dtra3_array/dtra3_array_ver3 Output File : DTRA3_ARRAY_VER3.pdf
(::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Annotating page objects for SCHEMATIC2 : CONNECTOR
(::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Annotating page objects for SCHEMATIC2 : SOLOMON READOUT
(::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Annotating page objects for SCHEMATIC2 : VOLTAGE REFERENCES
(::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Annotating page objects for SCHEMATIC2 : XCHIP_READOUT
(::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Annotating page objects for SOLOMONWIRE : SOLOMONWIRE
(::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Annotating page objects for SOLOMONWIRE : SOLOMONWIRE
(::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Annotating page objects for SOLOMONWIRE : SOLOMONWIRE
(::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Annotating page objects for XCHIP1 : XCHIP1
(::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Annotating page objects for XCHIP1 : XCHIP1
(::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Annotating page objects for XCHIP1 : XCHIP1
(::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Annotating page objects for XCHIP1 : XCHIP1
(::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Annotating page objects for XCHIP1 : XCHIP1
(::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Generating PDF file from postscript ....
(::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Successful

  • xraybox

    I changed my path from

    {C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.09\bin\gswin64c.exe}

    to

    {C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.09\bin\gswin64c.exe} -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$::capPdfUtil::mPdfFilePath -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE $::capPdfUtil::mPSFilePath

    The program now generates a pdf file. The message log is ending with an unrecoverable error but it seems to be working

    (::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Output Directory : C:/Users/jbert/Documents Output File : testing_out_inst3.pdf
    (::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Annotating page objects for SCHEMATIC2 : CONNECTOR
    (::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Annotating page objects for SCHEMATIC2 : SOLOMON READOUT
    (::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Annotating page objects for SCHEMATIC2 : VOLTAGE REFERENCES
    (::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Annotating page objects for SCHEMATIC2 : XCHIP_READOUT
    (::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Annotating page objects for SOLOMONWIRE : SOLOMONWIRE
    (::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Annotating page objects for SOLOMONWIRE : SOLOMONWIRE
    (::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Annotating page objects for SOLOMONWIRE : SOLOMONWIRE
    (::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Annotating page objects for XCHIP1 : XCHIP1
    (::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Annotating page objects for XCHIP1 : XCHIP1
    (::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Annotating page objects for XCHIP1 : XCHIP1
    (::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Annotating page objects for XCHIP1 : XCHIP1
    (::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Annotating page objects for XCHIP1 : XCHIP1
    (::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Generating PDF file from postscript ....
    (::capPdfUtil::printPdf) Failed : GPL Ghostscript 9.09 (2013-08-21)
    Copyright (C) 2012 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
    This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
    Loading NimbusMonL-Regu font from %rom%Resource/Font/NimbusMonL-Regu... 3900312 2468675 1827432 487041 1 done.
    %%[ ProductName: GPL Ghostscript ]%%
    Loading NimbusSanL-Regu font from %rom%Resource/Font/NimbusSanL-Regu... 4072072 2673145 3038472 821115 2 done.
    %%[Page: 1]%%
    %%[Page: 2]%%
    %%[Page: 3]%%
    %%[Page: 4]%%
    %%[Page: 5]%%
    %%[Page: 6]%%
    %%[Page: 7]%%
    %%[Page: 8]%%
    %%[Page: 9]%%
    %%[Page: 10]%%
    %%[Page: 11]%%
    %%[Page: 12]%%
    %%[LastPage]%%
    %%[ Error: rangecheck; OffendingCommand: pdfmark ]%%
    GPL Ghostscript 9.09: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

  • xraybox

    The pdf that is generated ends with the message pasted below.  It does not output the reference designators or the nets as links in the pdf. The second pdf file with the tables of object properties is not generated either.  Any idea how to fix this?

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

    ERROR: rangecheck
    OFFENDING COMMAND: pdfmark

    STACK:

    /ANN
    /Link
    /Subtype
    -dictionary-
    /Action
    [0 0 0 ]
    /Border
    [0 1 0 ]
    /Color
    [390 309 383 310 ]
    /Rect
    2
    /SrcPg
    -mark- 

  • xraybox

    Solution:

     Need to use gswin32c.exe.  Even though my computer is running a 64 bit operating system gswin64c.exe throws errors.

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