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Orcad Capture PDF Export utility and PDF Creator problems.

joma

Hi, I have Orcad Capture v16.6 and I am trying to set up the Tcl/TK utility PDF Export to use PDFCreator.exe as its PS to PDF converter. The problem I have is that the PDFCreator print list appears and runs for a few seconds and then locks up. It creates a pdf file but that file is broken and Adobe Acrobat cannot read it or fix it (not a complete file probably).

I have checked the postscript output (CapOutput.ps) by using an online converter and I get a good pdf from that although I can't get the CapPropMark.ps to create a properties pdf. I don't want to stay with the online solution because I run into file size problems with a full size design (CapOutput.ps = 86Mb, CapPropMark.ps = 320Mb).

Does anybody else use PDFCreator for this job and is there a particular setup needed? At present I select  "Ghostscript / equivalent" for the converter and substitute the path to PDFCreator as follows

{C:\Program Files (x86)\PDFCreator\PDFCreator.exe} -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$::capPdfUtil::mPdfFilePath -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE $::capPdfUtil::mPSFilePath

Perhaps there are some changes I should make to this line? I might add that PDFCreator works fine as a normal print to pdf convertor.

Thanks in advance,

Jim O'Mahony

  • steve
    Not sure about PDFCreator but if you have a read of http://www.parallel-systems.co.uk/images/PDF/Capture_PDF_Generation.pdf this will give you a working version of the Intelligent PDF.
  • joma
    Thanks Steve. The first part of the document is the standard setup but the last section gives a clue by saying that ghostscript can run on 64bit. Perhaps I can get my sys admin to install that.
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