How to make PDF out of drafting on UNIX machine?
How to make PDF out of drafting on UNIX machine?
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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 $$$$.
Thanks for any useful tip.
Cheers
My question is how to make PDF file out drafting on HP-UX machine?
I'm using I-DEAS 12 NX on HP-UX 11i v1. I know about SDI-PDF but only DEMO version comes with I-DEAS. I also know about m-plot but thats $$$$.
Thanks for any useful tip.
Cheers





RE: How to make PDF out of drafting on UNIX machine?
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Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
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RE: How to make PDF out of drafting on UNIX machine?
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?
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?
RE: How to make PDF out of drafting on UNIX machine?
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?
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?
Fist you need GhostScript not GhostView. GhostView is just a
viewer and it doesn't include "ps2pdf14" command.
You need GhostScript.
Get it here: ht
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?
RE: How to make PDF out of drafting on UNIX machine?
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?