Update to print to wmf method for importing cad plots etc.

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Malcolm Reeves

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Hi,

Just a note to say that my pspice tips page,
www.fullcircuit.com/psptips.htm has update method for importing pspice
schematic and plots into MS Word. The method should work with any CAD
(or other) app to any word processor with wmf file import.

The fixes address issues like fonts, clipping and other conversion
errors.


--

....malcolm

Malcolm Reeves BSc CEng MIEE MIRSE, Full Circuit Ltd, Chippenham, UK
(mreeves@fullcircuit.com, mreeves@fullcircuit.co.uk or mreeves@iee.org).
Design Service for Analogue/Digital H/W & S/W Railway Signalling and Power
electronics. More details plus freeware, Win95/98 DUN and Pspice tips, see:

http://www.fullcircuit.com or http://www.fullcircuit.co.uk

NEW - Desktop ToDo/Reminder program (free)
 
In article <o8pj50hd945jjsreovrfeqdc7hc2mrpp8r@4ax.com>,
Malcolm Reeves <mreeves@fullcircuit.com> wrote:
Hi,

Just a note to say that my pspice tips page,
www.fullcircuit.com/psptips.htm has update method for importing pspice
schematic and plots into MS Word. The method should work with any CAD
(or other) app to any word processor with wmf file import.
Click to expand...
Also:

If you use LTspice, you can copy to the clipboard and then paste into an
Open Office document. It is best to set the colors to something very
contrasty when you do this. LTspice by default plots colors on black. You
usually want to plot colors on white for a document.

If you use Orcad, you can plot to a *.DXF file, open the file in TurboCad
and trim it up then cut and paste into an Open Office document.

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kensmith@rahul.net forging knowledge
 
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:37:53 +0000 (UTC), kensmith@violet.rahul.net
(Ken Smith) wrote:

In article <o8pj50hd945jjsreovrfeqdc7hc2mrpp8r@4ax.com>,
Malcolm Reeves <mreeves@fullcircuit.com> wrote:
Hi,

Just a note to say that my pspice tips page,
www.fullcircuit.com/psptips.htm has update method for importing pspice
schematic and plots into MS Word. The method should work with any CAD
(or other) app to any word processor with wmf file import.

Also:

If you use LTspice, you can copy to the clipboard and then paste into an
Open Office document. It is best to set the colors to something very
contrasty when you do this. LTspice by default plots colors on black. You
usually want to plot colors on white for a document.

If you use Orcad, you can plot to a *.DXF file, open the file in TurboCad
and trim it up then cut and paste into an Open Office document.
Click to expand...
It is worth pointing out that my method gives vector format wmf so the
scale without losing resolution. Quite often clipboard will make bmp
copies giving a huge document at the end of it. Pspice schematic also
has a copy to clipboard but the result is bmp.

Most print functions in programs adjust for the fact that paper is
white so colours are usually ok. If you want just black and white
then that can be corrected in Word by doing format picture Black &
White.


--

....malcolm

Malcolm Reeves BSc CEng MIEE MIRSE, Full Circuit Ltd, Chippenham, UK
(mreeves@fullcircuit.com, mreeves@fullcircuit.co.uk or mreeves@iee.org).
Design Service for Analogue/Digital H/W & S/W Railway Signalling and Power
electronics. More details plus freeware, Win95/98 DUN and Pspice tips, see:

http://www.fullcircuit.com or http://www.fullcircuit.co.uk

NEW - Desktop ToDo/Reminder program (free)
 
If you use LTspice, you can copy to the clipboard and then paste into an
Open Office document. It is best to set the colors to something very
contrasty when you do this. LTspice by default plots colors on black. You
usually want to plot colors on white for a document.
Click to expand...
The most convenient tool for this is ABViewer from
www.cadsofttools.com You can select rectangular area on the drawing
and copy it to clipboard/print/save to wmf/emf/bmp/jpeg/gif...
Very fast with DXF, DWG, HPGL
Thanks Evgeny
 
On 20 Mar 2004 12:09:36 -0800, info@cadsofttools.com (Evgeny) wrote:

If you use LTspice, you can copy to the clipboard and then paste into an
Open Office document. It is best to set the colors to something very
contrasty when you do this. LTspice by default plots colors on black. You
usually want to plot colors on white for a document.

The most convenient tool for this is ABViewer from
www.cadsofttools.com You can select rectangular area on the drawing
and copy it to clipboard/print/save to wmf/emf/bmp/jpeg/gif...
Very fast with DXF, DWG, HPGL
Click to expand...
Well it's not free like my solution plus I wonder how you can copy off
the screen and get a vector format. I would guess you only get a
raster format and also only at screen resolution. By getting the
application to print you overcome that limitation.


--

....malcolm

Malcolm Reeves BSc CEng MIEE MIRSE, Full Circuit Ltd, Chippenham, UK
(mreeves@fullcircuit.com, mreeves@fullcircuit.co.uk or mreeves@iee.org).
Design Service for Analogue/Digital H/W & S/W Railway Signalling and Power
electronics. More details plus freeware, Win95/98 DUN and Pspice tips, see:

http://www.fullcircuit.com or http://www.fullcircuit.co.uk

NEW - Desktop ToDo/Reminder program (free)
 
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 19:08:43 +0000, Malcolm Reeves
<mreeves@fullcircuit.com> wrote:

On 20 Mar 2004 12:09:36 -0800, info@cadsofttools.com (Evgeny) wrote:

If you use LTspice, you can copy to the clipboard and then paste into an
Open Office document. It is best to set the colors to something very
contrasty when you do this. LTspice by default plots colors on black. You
usually want to plot colors on white for a document.

The most convenient tool for this is ABViewer from
www.cadsofttools.com You can select rectangular area on the drawing
and copy it to clipboard/print/save to wmf/emf/bmp/jpeg/gif...
Very fast with DXF, DWG, HPGL


Well it's not free like my solution plus I wonder how you can copy off
the screen and get a vector format. I would guess you only get a
raster format and also only at screen resolution. By getting the
application to print you overcome that limitation.
Click to expand...
I had an application called SuperPrint that acted like a print driver
and could print in just about any format known to man. But when Win2K
came along the program wouldn't play and contacting them produced the
response "tough we only supply the program built-in to OEM
applications now" :-(

I'd love to find a substitute. Any ideas?

...Jim Thompson
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| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

Throughout the history of this great country there have actually
been people of only two political persuasions: fighters and yellow-
bellies. WE MUST NOT LET THE LATTER PREVAIL IN THE NEXT ELECTION!
 
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:41:59 -0700, Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

I had an application called SuperPrint that acted like a print driver
and could print in just about any format known to man. But when Win2K
came along the program wouldn't play and contacting them produced the
response "tough we only supply the program built-in to OEM
applications now" :-(

I'd love to find a substitute. Any ideas?
Click to expand...
I had that too at one time. The wmf method on my pspice tips page
acts like a printer. It's a bit involved to set up but once done
that's it. You just print to wmf and give a file name.

On my set up I generate two files (you can set it how you want).
These are cropped a bit which removes the border from a schematic as
sometimes I want it like that. And expanded a bit so when I put a
frame around a plot I'm not right up against the axis text.

wmf will import into word directly but you could also use a graphics
converter to change it to gif etc. fro web pages.


--

....malcolm

Malcolm Reeves BSc CEng MIEE MIRSE, Full Circuit Ltd, Chippenham, UK
(mreeves@fullcircuit.com, mreeves@fullcircuit.co.uk or mreeves@iee.org).
Design Service for Analogue/Digital H/W & S/W Railway Signalling and Power
electronics. More details plus freeware, Win95/98 DUN and Pspice tips, see:

http://www.fullcircuit.com or http://www.fullcircuit.co.uk

NEW - Desktop ToDo/Reminder program (free)
 
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:41:51 +0000, Malcolm Reeves
<mreeves@fullcircuit.com> wrote:

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:41:59 -0700, Jim Thompson
thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

I had an application called SuperPrint that acted like a print driver
and could print in just about any format known to man. But when Win2K
came along the program wouldn't play and contacting them produced the
response "tough we only supply the program built-in to OEM
applications now" :-(

I'd love to find a substitute. Any ideas?

I had that too at one time. The wmf method on my pspice tips page
acts like a printer. It's a bit involved to set up but once done
that's it. You just print to wmf and give a file name.

On my set up I generate two files (you can set it how you want).
These are cropped a bit which removes the border from a schematic as
sometimes I want it like that. And expanded a bit so when I put a
frame around a plot I'm not right up against the axis text.

wmf will import into word directly but you could also use a graphics
converter to change it to gif etc. fro web pages.
Click to expand...
My work-around is to print to PS then convert to GIF in PSP. (How's
that for alphabet soup ?:)

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

Throughout the history of this great country there have actually
been people of only two political persuasions: fighters and yellow-
bellies. WE MUST NOT LET THE LATTER PREVAIL IN THE NEXT ELECTION!
 
Malcolm,

If you use LTspice, you can copy to the clipboard and then
paste into an Open Office document. It is best to set the
colors to something very contrasty when you do this. LTspice
by default plots colors on black. You usually want to plot
colors on white for a document.

It is worth pointing out that my method gives vector format wmf
so the scale without losing resolution. Quite often clipboard
will make bmp copies giving a huge document at the end of it.
Pspice schematic also has a copy to clipboard but the result is
bmp.
Click to expand...
The current version of LTspice will let you export to
a Metafile(.wmf) directly from LTspice. When either a
schematic or waveform window is the active window, there's
a new menu command "Tools=>Write to a .wmf file", right below
the menu command that copies the bitmap to the clipboard.
The new command does save the view as vector graphics that
can be imported into, e.g., Word where it can be resized or
further edited with additional annotations. You can even
make a Windows Metafile under Linux in this way. LTspice's
former "Monochrome Printing" option now also is used to
make B&W metafiles.

--Mike
 
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