Automatic printing to a PS or PDF file

Running Pro-E on Windows.

Is there a way to print drawings to a PostScript or PDF file (so not
using the native PS export) without prompting a dialog that asks the
user for a file name and destination?

So that just by a click of a button, myfile.pdf is created from
myfile.drw using predefined settings and target directory?

Jeroen Dekker

 

Hi Jeroen,

if You don´t mind it´s in german - there has been a very good article
about how to build a PDF server using Ghostscript in a german computer
magazine called c´t (Issue No. 6/2004). If it´s windnose You´re using
this might be of interest for You (mail me if You want a copy).

Using UNIX I print "generic PS" and convert using ps2pdf (ghostscript).
This can off course be automatized easily, too.

Regards

Walther

 

Go to this site and follow the directions

http://www.ptcuser.org//rugs/atlanta/

 

Jeroen,

You could use my FreeDist tool to automatically create PDF's from Pro-E.
You can find it here http://home.hccnet.nl/s.vd.palen
To set it up in combination with Pro-E you can find an "How to" over here:
http://www.profilesmagazine.com/p25/tools.html

Best regards,
Stephan van der Palen

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Thank you all for your suggestions.

However, please keep in mind that

- I cannot use Pro-E's native PS output (it doesn't handle embedded
files and images well). The PostScript or PDF has to be generated via
a (Windows) printer driver. From looking at the instructions you have
pointed me to, it is not really clear how you create the PostScript
files for GhostScript to 'distill' to PDF.

- If I can get PostScript without the interactive dialogue, and
without using the native PS output, then I don't need to go to PDF
anymore.

Thank you for any clarification you can provide regarding the above
points.

Jeroen Dekker

 

Install a printer driver for e.g. a HP DesignJet 750C Plus PS and
choose the option
'Print to file' and you'll have a PostScript file you can use with
GhostScript.

Best regards,

John Bijnens

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as John already said, the restrictions you mentioned come with the
"generic" postscript only. I have good results here with postscript
files generated using both a HP DesignJet 750C "driver" (to print
drawings to a HP DesignJet 600 in b&w only, actually) and one for
Tektronix Phaser for shaded gfx.

I use the ps3pdf converter to deliver documents via email, never tried
what will happen if pdf files are sent to a printer directly...

Cheers
Walther