Question to: Andrew Beckett, Svenn, or Stephan .. Please help

Hi dear all,

I want to know simple method to capture figures from Virtuoso
Schematic editor as well as VLE, and wave scan.. And how can i deal
with the black background? Isn't they a method to whiten it?
Thanks in advance,

It may be general Linux issue, but sure you've a solution to it...

BTW, I tried for waveform window to save curves with white background,
but it couldn't be saved as i want!!!

Thank you very much, and sorry for disturbing you specially..

Kind regards,
Ahmad,

 

Sorry, May I ask where's the default place should .Xdefaults file
exists? Should it be in the same place as .cdsinit?
And Can xrdb .Xdefaults command be added in my .cdsinit?
I found a sample .Xdefaults file in $CDS_ROOT/dfII/
cdsuser/.Xdefaults , and i think its contents is not written in SKILL,
is that true??
I found in that file that some changes may cause losing bindings, how
to avoid that or be aware to it??
Finally, where can I read more about that file to further customize
the tools?

Kind regards,
Reotaro,

 

Actually, you want to use the merge option:

# xrdb -m ~/.Xdefaults

or

# xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults

else it will simply replace your X Resource DataBase (what "xrdb" stands for)
completely with what is in your .Xdefaults, and that could mess up some
settings you already have.

On most systems, your ~/.Xdefaults file is merged into the system and other
settings when you log into the X Windows system (or your "desktop").

-Pete Zakel
()

WHERE CAN THE MATTER BE

Oh, dear, where can the matter be
When it's converted to energy?
There is a slight loss of parity.
Johnny's so long at the fair.

 

Maybe we should have a little "me too" session here and ask how many
have used this solution and continues to use it after having looked at
it once? I'm going to turn it off right away and never use it anymore.

When switching the Opus editor background to white, you will have to
switch all the text that is white to some other color or you will not
see it. I think this workaround is bad, and do not recomend it, and
also point to the fact that it is from 1999.

It looks like the original poster just wants to use screen or window
capture programs external to dfII (like alt-printscreen in windows) to
capture stuff for documentation. I don't have a "proper" solution to
the problem. This is something that Cadence should have fixed years
ago in my opinion. Maybe it is in IC6.x

 

The white background stuff does work, but you can't do it without adjusting
your display.drf to make the other colours consistent - this seems reasonable to
me.

Wavescan has a means of saving an image, which is a better solution than using
a screen grab.

Coming in IC612 will be a way of directly saving an image from the schematic and
layout applications, which will make this easier. Again, it's not a screen grab,
and so there'll be control over the resolution (I've not had a chance to play
with it yet). I believe in IC611, there's a SKILL function you can call to do
something similar (but I'm on a plane right now).

Apart from that, I've written PostScript using the normal plotting interface,
and then the ps2img command (maybe pstoimg, I forget) which is certainly
there in my Linux installation. This produces a png file from the PostScript -
and I can control whether that PostScript is black and white or colour. Again,
as with paper plots, you need to ensure that the colours work well with a white
background, but generally the plotting converts white text to black.

Regards,

Andrew.

 

Simply print the schematic or layout to PostScript or HPGL from inside of
Virtuoso.