gif/jpg from protel schematic?

[Jeff Webb]

Garfield Willis wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:21:51 -0500, steve ravet <sravet at arm.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >Does anyone know how to create a gif/bmp/jpg file from a protel
> >schematic?  I tried save as and export but couldn't seem to do it.  I've
> >got a "project" that I want to upload to the ftp site...
> 
> The best way might be to "print" it using the PDFWriter printer
> driver, which allows you to output to a PDF file as if you were
> printing the schematic to a printer. Unfortunately, our main computer
> is still in storage, so I can't sent it to ya. Perhaps someone else
> onlist has it, or can point you to a freebie copy of it on the Adobe
> site. I got mine as part of a full Acrobat license, so I dunno zactly
> what the source for it would be now. Sorry for such sketchy help.

I think you can get a pdf in the following way.  Use
ControlPanel->Printers to install a new "local" printer.  Pick a printer
that takes plain postscript "AppleWriter II NT" will work, I think. 
Pick the "FILE" device.  Now print your schematic on that printer and
find the file that it created.  Use ps2pdf from the ghostscript package
to convert it to a pdf.  I can't try this right now because I don't have
the dang win98 disk handy to install the new printer driver.  Let me
know if this works or if you find another solution, as I will need to do
this in the future.

Of course, Gar's way of doing it is easier and better if you can get
PDFWriter for free.  I think PDF is a better route than gif/bmp/jpg, but
you can always to a screen or window capture to get a pure graphics
format.

Jeff
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