Generate Pdf for schematic Hierarchically

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Hello all,

Is there is any procedure through skill to generate Pdf for a
schematic hierarchically.

Regards,
Sridhar.
 
Hi Sridhar,

Very easy.
Go to your Schematic plot GUI, set it up to plot your schematic
hierarchy into a
post script file. Use the necessary options as available from the GUI.
Save all your customizations into a template file, say
myPrinttemplate.il

This file would serve as the starting point for your script.
Edit this file an customize the schPlotOptions DPL.
You can for example remove the hard wired names and replace them by
variables
that you manage from your script.
Something like:

schPlotOptions->library=libName
schPlotOptions->cell=cellName
schPlotOptions->view=viewName

The last bit if for you to print using the following Skill function:
schPlot()

This would generate a post script file (an eps file off the top of my
head).
The PDF can then be generated running a standard Unix ps2pdfwr or any
other
utility you fancy.

Hope this will get you on the track !

Cheers,
Riad.
 
Hi Riad,

Thanks for the reply,
Yes I could do this But by this way all the pdfs will be generated
individually.
Can you please tell me a procedure by which all the pdfs are appended
to a single pdf with bookmarks.
Regards,
Sridhar.
 
I believe before you use the ps2pdf command you can use the cat
command to put all the postscript files into one, then do ps2pdf on
the one file cat creates.

Tim
 
Tim's right,

A cut on all the ps files would make one big PS that you can convert
into PDF.
But if you wanted something more neat, i.e. with bookmarks etc ...
then you are likely to use something like LaTeX (That's the only one I
have got experience with). Just including the eps files and LaTeX
handles PDF generation with bookmarks very well.
I wouldn't advise that routes though. A bit complicated, not supported
as standard in Unix, not easily accepted by design engineers ... etc.
Best Thing to consider is to keep the separate pdfs as I indicated
above and then create a HTML hierarchy of your design with hyper links
to your PDF. It's easier, and very friendly for both the developer and
the end user.

Cheers,
Riad.
 
Thanks Riad I will surely try on this,
Can u please give me some hints on how to create HTML hierarchy of the
design.
And also How to take a nice pdf output of the schematic and layouts ,
by default the o/p pdf is not great is there any methods to change the
colours before we export to ps.
Regards,
Sridhar.
 
Hi Sridhar,

1. You need to learn HTML for your first question.
2. I use B&W for all my technical documentation. We don't care about
fancy colors among the engineering community. Cadence outputs an EPS
format, which is a vectorial format. You can use either B&W or Color
as output using epsfc. If you want to modify your colors, then best is
to make a JPEG and edit it with GIMP, Photoshop ... etc. I'm too busy
to do this. I'm very happy with a B&W eps, B&W is environment friendly
and I do care about environment too :)

Cheers,
Riad.
 
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