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Re: Help: .PRN file from Orcad SDT

#11977
From: Marc
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 05:36
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What printer, connection and commands exactly "spat out the correct schematic
image" ?

That may give some clues to the format...


"budgie" <budgie@nowhere.cantech.net.au> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 08:55:28 +1000, "Adrian M Jansen" <qqv@xyz.com>
> wrote:
>
> >If its a true postscript file, it will be text, not binary.  That isnt to
> >say it will be readable, except by a postscript reader.  Ghostscript works
> >on almost any postscript files I have tried, certainly on files produced by
> >my old DOS version of Orcad.
>
> That's what has me concerned - I did the copy command as previously
> posted and it spat out the correct schematic image.  I have 5D (Jaws)
> for ps to pdf conversions, and it spat the dummy - said "not a ps
> file".   I checked and his SDT is version 3.something.
>
> Peter
>
> >budgie wrote in message <3d45381c.6612792@news.cantech.net.au>...
> >>I have a file as per header, sent by colleague.  It was the only
> >>electronic output option he had, and it sounded great at the time.
> >>
> >>Problem is, I want it in soft form for digestion into something else -
> >>almost anything else in fact.  But the format baffles everything I
> >>have tried on it.  Obviously I can "copy file.prn lpt1:" at a DOS
> >>prompt, but that wasn't the objective.
> >>
> >>Can anyone suggest a redigestion route?
> >>
> >>TIA
> >>
> >>Peter
> >
> >
>
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