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Article #12002Re: Help: .PRN file from Orcad SDT
From: budgie
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 07:10
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 07:10
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On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 09:02:59 +1000, "Adrian M Jansen" <qqv@xyz.com> wrote: >Ok, most people have forgotten about the DOS versions, and how they work. >Orcad SDT 3.xx was a DOS program ,and had its own printer and plotter >drivers. You can specify them in one of the configuration menus on starting >Orcad with the /c switch. I depends only on what printer driver was >configured here, there are no 'default printer drivers' within the DOS >system. Since you say the file is binary, no, I never claimed any such thing. > and with no obvious header >strings, my guess is its a HP printer language file, not postscript, which >is text. There are some programs to turn that back into editable form, sort >of. A search on google should show some up. I've never done it. Orcad was >pretty poor at that sort of compatibility. Even if you get the files resent >as a postscript file, which at least is text, you still cant directly put >them in editable form. Maybe my word selection was misleading. I used redigestion rather than editable - the intention was to have it in an electronically transportable form which was moderately platform-independent. Ironically, the .prn file seems to do a lot of that, although I guess I was expecting a graphics_package-compatible form.
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