You need PDF with Adobe Acrobat Distiller software from Adobe to plot a PDF
file. You then install the Distiller software as one of your NT(I assume you are
NT) printer drivers.  You then take the file and use the Distiller to create a
PDF file.  You should use the 3.02 update which gets rid of some bugs.  My first
attempts at this gave me Dr. Watson.  You need the following files:

ad302.exe (install this update over version 3.0)
adobe.exe (part of your base software)
aps5eng.exe (installs the Distiller as a printer)

The first and third files can be downloaded from Adobe.com.  For more
information contact Adobe technical support.  If anyone has done this and knows
what it would take to make these files text searchable for schematic documents
for use on a web page please let me know.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Meehan; Alexis" <[log in to unmask]> at ccmail
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 1:39 PM
To: [log in to unmask] at CCMAIL
Subject: [DC] Printing to files


I have Allegro (PE13.0) and Viewlogic (7.53). There is a need at my company
to create
.pdf files for drawings from both applications. Has anyone out there done
this? What do
I need to do/buy? Thanks.

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Alexis Meehan               Wavespan Corporation
Engineering Services    500 N. Bernardo Avenue
Tel: 650-237-8365            Mountain View, CA 94043
Fax: 650-919-0191            http://www.wavespan.com
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