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Jose Carlos Alvarez Perez

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Dec 8, 1995, 3:00:00 AM12/8/95
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Peter (ft...@dial.pipex.com) wrote:
: > Anybody know about OR-CAD postscript printer driver?
: > I'm using ORCAD ver. 4.xx, which has no printer driver
: >for postscript printer. Any idea to turn the schematic
: >drawings into PS format will also appreciated.

Hi!
I usually use the plotter PS driver, as they recomended in printers.doc

SY, Jose


Sam Goldwasser

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Dec 9, 1995, 3:00:00 AM12/9/95
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In article <4a9jak$1...@ccioffe.ioffe.rssi.ru> jo...@fl.uoregon.edu (Jose Carlos Alvarez Perez) writes:

> Hi!
> I usually use the plotter PS driver, as they recomended in printers.doc

> SY, Jose

That is a good point. The plotter driver is probably what he is after
and doesn't realize it. As far as I know, OrCad does not have a PS printer
driver. After all, Postscript is basically a graphical language which
creates an entire page like a plotter.

--- sam


Peter

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Dec 9, 1995, 3:00:00 AM12/9/95
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>Postscript is handled as plotter, not as a printer by orcad.
>A side effect is that you cannot do a _hardcopy_.

Actually, that is right, a "printer" is always a bitmap device, and a
"plotter" is always a vector device, in Orcad.

One could do a Postscript driver for the "printer" but it would be
terribly slow due to amount of processing the printer would have to
do. Printing bitmaps to PS devices is slow, in every case I have seen,
typically 10 times slower than sending a bitmap to a bitmap printer of
the same resolution.

Peter.

Gerhard Hoffmann

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Dec 9, 1995, 3:00:00 AM12/9/95
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In article <4a1l5g$k...@xpat.postech.ac.kr>,

Jo GyuChan (8924036) <chr...@mirror.postech.ac.kr> wrote:
> Anybody know about OR-CAD postscript printer driver?
> I'm using ORCAD ver. 4.xx, which has no printer driver
>for postscript printer. Any idea to turn the schematic
>drawings into PS format will also appreciated.

Postscript is handled as plotter, not as a printer by orcad.


A side effect is that you cannot do a _hardcopy_.

regards, Gerhard

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Jo GyuChan (8924036)

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Dec 9, 1995, 3:00:00 AM12/9/95
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Gerhard Hoffmann (ger...@netmbx.netmbx.de) wrote:
: In article <4a1l5g$k...@xpat.postech.ac.kr>,

: Jo GyuChan (8924036) <chr...@mirror.postech.ac.kr> wrote:
: > Anybody know about OR-CAD postscript printer driver?
: > I'm using ORCAD ver. 4.xx, which has no printer driver
: >for postscript printer. Any idea to turn the schematic
: >drawings into PS format will also appreciated.

: Postscript is handled as plotter, not as a printer by orcad.
: A side effect is that you cannot do a _hardcopy_.
: regards, Gerhard

Thanks. Then how can I get a hardcopy of my drawing? I
guess you just meant I can not use -make hardcopy- menu.

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