Tis truly easy to print direct to a pdf from almost any application, including Protel EDA. Adobe Acrobat and a large number of third party PDF "printer" drivers are available. While Adobe's ~$200 package might be a bit overkill for most of us, the third party solutions range in price from around ten bucks to $40...
A simple search on DejaNews (google) or at tucows (or similar) for "pdf writer" will turn up enough to allow you to trial and buy... I've been printing pdfs by selecting a pdf writer as the print device (ie, transparent and simple) for nearly a decade. aj -----Original Message----- From: Jon Elson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 2:01 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Exporting to pdf or Orcad or PSpice Trent Bates wrote: >I am trying to export one of my schematics to a customer. I am using >Protel 99SE SP6. > >The customer would like it in a pdf format or an Orcad format (.DSN >file or something of the sort) or something they could read from >PSpice. I tried saving one of my schematics as an Orcad .sch file but >strange things happened and components went all over the place. What >is the best way to export the schematic. Can Protel export to a pdf >format? I think that would be the easiest. I can take screen shots >but you end up loosing a lot of detail with screen shots. If I took a >screen shot of the whole schematic it would look pretty fuzzy when you >zoomed in once it was in pdf format. If I could export directly to pdf I could keep the detail. > > My system, although cumbersome, works. I output to a PostScript file, using a driver for one of the common color printers from HP, but causing it to be saved to a file. I then pull the file over to Linux and run it through ps2pdf, to convert to pdf format. I'm sure Adobe has a program that will do this all in Windows. (I run Win 2K as a "guest" OS under VMware, with Linux as the "host" OS.) Jon * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
