CDSDoc User Guide, Product Version 2.1

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Quick Help for Cadence Documents

This is the first chapter of the User Guide for CDSDoc, the Cadence online documentation system. It gives a quick overview of the basic features of the system. Additional chapters describe these features in more detail.

The following sections cover:

• Overview of CDSDoc

• Opening Documents (Quick Reference)

• Using the Command Bar

• Printing Documents (Quick Reference)

• Searching Documents (Quick Reference)

You can also read online tutorials about CDSDoc, as described in Chapter 2, "Online Training for CDSDoc."

Overview of CDSDoc

CDSDoc consists of the following:

• The Library window, a java application that you use to open Cadence product manuals.

• HTML documents that appear in your web browser.

• A local http server that controls a full-text Search engine.

• Portable Document Format (PDF) documents you can use to print a book or chapter.

Opening Documents (Quick Reference)

Use the CDSDoc Library window to open documents. The window lists documents by Product name, Cadence Platform name, or alphabetically by title.

1. If the CDSDoc Library window is not displayed, open it by clicking the button at the top of a document.

2. In the CDSDoc Library window, click on a category name to show the documents in that category.

3. Click on a manual title to show its chapters.

4. Double-click a chapter title to load that chapter into your web browser.

See Chapter 3, "Opening Libraries and Documents," for more details.

Using the Command Bar

The command bar at the top or bottom of any document lets you do any of the following.

	Display the CDSDoc Library window listing all documents in this release. See Chapter 3, "Opening Libraries and Documents," for details.
	Jump to the table of contents for this document.
	Open the Index of topics for this document.
	Jump to the previous chapter of this document.
	Jump to the next chapter of this document.
	Open a PDF version of the document you can print. See Chapter 4, "Printing Documents," for details.
	Search this or any document in the Cadence library. See Chapter 5, "Searching Cadence Documents," for details.
	Send an e-mail with comments to Cadence about this document. See Sending Comments to Cadence for details.
	Display this help file.
	Close the http server used for searching Cadence documents and exit the CDSDoc Library window. See Exiting the Library for details.

Printing Documents (Quick Reference)

To print a document, you open a PDF (Portable Document Format) version of the entire book in Adobe Acrobat, then choose the pages you want to print.

1. Click the button in the command bar at the top or bottom of a Cadence document.

   A PDF version of the document appears in an Acrobat Reader window.

2. Choose File - Print in the Acrobat Reader window to display the Print form.

   You can choose to print all of a manual, or only selected pages. See Chapter 4, "Printing Documents," for more details.

Searching Documents (Quick Reference)

Click the Search button at the top of any Cadence document to search this or other books in the Cadence library.

1. Use the scrolling lists at the top of the Search window to choose:

   • The Cadence product Platform(s) you want to search.

   • The Cadence Product(s) you want to search.

   • The document(s) you want to search.

   Hint: Narrowing the search to a Platform or to one or two specific Products reduces the number of documents listed and makes it easier to pick one or two books.

2. Type the string of text you want to look for and click GO.

   • You can use AND, OR, or NOT to perform Boolean searches: printer AND hp

   • To match an exact phrase, enclose it in quotes: "change layer colors"

   • To search for part of a string, use wildcard characters to match the rest of the string: dbCreate*

3. Search displays a list of chapters that match your string. Click on a chapter title to open that chapter.

4. Inside the chapter, you can click the Jump to the first match text at the top of the page to jump to the first matching word, and use the arrow buttons to jump to next or previous matches.

See Chapter 5, "Searching Cadence Documents," for details.

For support, see http://www.cadence.com/support or try Cadence's SourceLink service.

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