How to make PDF out of drafting on UNIX machine? 1

[LukaK]

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

 

[Xwheelguy]

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.

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[LukaK]

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...

 

[Xwheelguy]

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.

http://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.

 

[LukaK]

It works! thank you! i did my first PDF with ps2pdf14

 

[Xwheelguy]

Glad to be of some help.

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.

http://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.

 

[prabhusoma]

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.

 

[LukaK]

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.

 

[LukaK]

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

 

[prabhusoma]

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

 

[LukaK]

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.