LTSpice -- No circles!

[Chris Carlen]

Hi:

Running LTSpice 2.04u with Wine 20030217 build for Suse 8.1 Linux, I
print my schematic to a file.

The resulting postscript file shows everything correctly except that the
circles around voltage and current sources are missing.

Furthermore, the postscript file produced breaks my HP5000 printer. I
suppose this is because I have'n't spent the required hours of fussing
to figure out how to configure Wine correctly, but it seems clear that
the missing circles is still a problem.

Any clue how to fix this?


Thanks.



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Christopher R. Carlen
Principal Laser/Optical Technologist
Sandia National Laboratories CA USA
crcarle@sandia.gov -- NOTE: Remove "BOGUS" from email address to reply.

 

[Chris Carlen]

Mike Engelhardt wrote:

The nice people over at comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine or the
WINE developer's mailing list might have a real fix for this. But in the
interest of defensive programming, as of version 2.04v, LTspice will
draw 32 line segments instead of true, pixel limit, circles when
printing under WINE.

For people that want to work on WINE issues, you can start LTspice
with the command line option -wine or -nowine to force it to use
the WINE modified algorithms or the native MS windows algorithms.

--Mike

Mike:

Thanks for the update.

If I want to follow this up with the Wine folks, can you give me a
little background on what goes on under the hood? For instance, when
your program prints does it print PS or some Windows format, so that the
WinePS driver has to convert it to PS?

In other words, is the problem that some postscript generating code in
Wine isn't working right?

Good day!


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Christopher R. Carlen
crobc@earthlink.net
Suse 8.1 Linux 2.4.19

 

[analog]

Mike Engelhardt, Chris Carlen wrote:

Running LTSpice 2.04u with Wine 20030217 build for Suse 8.1 Linux,
I print my schematic to a file.

The resulting postscript file shows everything correctly except
that the circles around voltage and current sources are missing.

This used to happen with our old HP laserjet printer (don't remember
the exact model number, but it was a common one) running under
various flavors of windows. Other printers didn't have this problem
and I haven't seen the missing circles since.

Furthermore, the postscript file produced breaks my HP5000 printer.

Never had that happen.

I suppose this is because I have'n't spent the required hours of
fussing to figure out how to configure Wine correctly, but it seems
clear that the missing circles is still a problem.

The nice people over at comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine or the
WINE developer's mailing list might have a real fix for this.
But in the interest of defensive programming, as of version 2.04v,
LTspice will draw 32 line segments instead of true, pixel limit,
circles when printing under WINE.

For people that want to work on WINE issues, you can start LTspice
with the command line option -wine or -nowine to force it to use
the WINE modified algorithms or the native MS windows algorithms.

Nice option. Hope I remember it in case the circles ever go missing
again. -- analog