×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

How to make PDF out of drafting on UNIX machine?

How to make PDF out of drafting on UNIX machine?

How to make PDF out of drafting on UNIX machine?

(OP)
Hello!

My question is how to make PDF file out drafting on HP-UX machine?

I'm using I-DEAS 12 NX on HP-UX 11i v1. I know about SDI-PDF but only DEMO version comes with I-DEAS. I also know about m-plot but thats $$$$.

Thanks for any useful tip.
Cheers

RE: How to make PDF out of drafting on UNIX machine?

I've only used this on Windows, but Ghostscript and Ghostview will do it.  Set up a printer in I-DEAS to output to PostScript file then open the .ps file with Ghostview and then convert it to PDF.  It's free.

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com

Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.

RE: How to make PDF out of drafting on UNIX machine?

(OP)
Hello

Thanks for help. Could you please tell me how to setup I-DEAS to output PostScript file :) since in msplot i find only PNG,JEPG,TIFF...

RE: How to make PDF out of drafting on UNIX machine?

You MIGHT have to configure a separate PostScript plotter/printer.  I don't use I-DEAS often but I am an NX veteran and it uses the exact same plotting from SDI.

File -> Print and from the SDI menu, pick your plotter/printer then over towards the right side you'll see 3 checkboxes.  Pick Print to File and choose the save location.

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com

Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.

RE: How to make PDF out of drafting on UNIX machine?

(OP)
It works! thank you! :) i did my first PDF with ps2pdf14 :D

RE: How to make PDF out of drafting on UNIX machine?

Glad to be of some help.

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com

Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.

RE: How to make PDF out of drafting on UNIX machine?

Nice post!

Lukak, please can you explain how you did it in I-Deas? I tried to save the print file. But by default it is saved as ***.pff
I've installed Ghostview also. But don' know how to invoke ps2pdf command. Can you help me out? I'm on I-deas NX m1/windows.

Thanks in advance.

RE: How to make PDF out of drafting on UNIX machine?

(OP)

Fist you need GhostScript not GhostView. GhostView is just a
viewer and it doesn't include "ps2pdf14" command.
You need GhostScript.

Get it here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1897&;package_id=108733&release_id=493869

Download: gs856w32.exe

Well i installed Ghostscript from "Porting And Archive Centre For HP-UX". Then i had setup I-DEAS Print to output me a .ps (PostScript) file.

When i have a .ps file i just do
ps2pdf -r300 file.ps file.pdf
and i get PDF

I also wrote a shell script which converts all .ps files to .pdf in one directory and deletes .PS files. But it's only for UNIX.

#!/usr/bin/sh
#
#  
#

echo "*****************************************"
echo "*   Converting .PS files to .PDF        *"                           
echo "*****************************************"                   



ls -1 /home/mkodric/PDF/*.ps | while read file
do
   ps2pdf14 -r300 $file && rm $file
done

echo "     ******** FINISHED *********"

You should check Ghostscript manual for Windows. I believe there must be somewhere that ps2pdf installed.

RE: How to make PDF out of drafting on UNIX machine?

(OP)
You invoke ps2pdf14 from command line. So you must open cmd.exe in Windows and go to directory where ps2pdf14.exe is installed.

RE: How to make PDF out of drafting on UNIX machine?

Thank you for the reply.
I'm sorry, I have installed ghostscript, not ghostview. Anyway, after adding specific folders to system PATH then I could convert existing .ps files to .pdf. Great!!!

Finally please can you let me know how to setup i-deas output to .ps files?  I had gone thru I-Deas help for the settings, but I couldnt find anything.

Thanks,
Soma

RE: How to make PDF out of drafting on UNIX machine?

(OP)
In plotter settings you must add new printer "Generic PostScript" printer. I don't know where that is in Windows. But i know for UNIX.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources