CDSDoc User Guide -- 4. Printing Documents

CDSDoc User Guide, Product Version 2.1

4

Printing Documents

Cadence provides Portable Document Format (PDF) versions of each of the documents in the library. You can open the PDF file using Adobe Acrobat® Reader and print all or part of the document.

The following sections describe:

Printing an Entire Book

Printing Sections of a Book

Printing on A4 Paper (Changing Paper Size)

Creating a List of Printable Files

The instructions in this chapter assume you have set up Adobe Acrobat Reader on your system. See Chapter 2, Setting Up Browsers and Helper Applications, in the CDSDoc Configuration Guide for details.

You can view a video about printing documents.

Printing an Entire Book

To print a complete document, follow the steps below.

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.

Note: If a dialog asks whether you want to download or display the file, choose display. Later, read Setting Up Browsers and Helper Applications in the CDSDoc Configuration Guide to find out how to set your browser to start Acrobat Reader whenever you click on a link to a PDF file.

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

Set the Printer Command (UNIX) to use an appropriate print command and printer at your site, or set the Printer Name (Windows) to a printer at your site.

Set Print Range to All.

UNIX

Windows

Click OK.

The entire book is printed to the printer you selected.

You can view a video about printing documents.

Printing Sections of a Book

You can print one or several sections of a book from the PDF file.

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.

Note: If a dialog asks whether you want to download or display the file, choose display. Later, read Setting Up Browsers and Helper Applications in the CDSDoc Configuration Guide to find out how to set your browser to start Acrobat Reader whenever you click on a link to a PDF file.

Do one of the following:

Look at the table of contents for the book to find the starting and ending page numbers of the section you want to print.

Scroll to or click on the section title you want to print and note the starting and ending numbers of the section.

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

Set the Printer Command (UNIX) to use an appropriate print command and printer at your site, or set the Printer Name (Windows) to a printer at your site.

Set Print Range to the page numbers you noted.

Note: On Windows systems, the dialog also lets you choose Current page to print the currently displayed page, or Selected pages to print pages you selected with the Acrobat Reader.

Click OK.

The pages are printed to the printer you selected.

Printing on A4 Paper (Changing Paper Size)

By default, Acrobat Reader is typically set to print on 8.5" x 11" paper. You can change this default to print on A4 (8.26" x 11.69") paper, or other paper types that fit in your printer.

Note: If you choose a paper size that is shorter than 10" long or narrower than 7.5" wide, the text may be truncated.

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.

Note: If a dialog asks whether you want to download or display the file, choose display. Later, read Setting Up Browsers and Helper Applications in the CDSDoc Configuration Guide to find out how to set your browser to start Acrobat Reader whenever you click on a link to a PDF file.

Choose File - Page Setup in the Acrobat Reader window.

Set Paper Size to A4.

Click OK.

The pages will be resized to the A4 format.

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

Set the Printer Command (UNIX) to use an appropriate print command and printer at your site, or set the Printer Name (Windows) to a printer at your site.

Set Print Range to the range you prefer, as described in Printing Sections of a Book.

Click OK.

The pages are printed.

Creating a List of Printable Files

Each book in a CDSDoc collection has a single PDF file. Each of those PDF files is stored in the directory for that book. You may want to quickly access all of the PDF documents when printing a set of manuals. Rather than opening an HTML page for each book and then opening the PDF, you can run a Perl script to generate a single HTML file with direct links to all of the PDFs in your library.

To follow the steps below, you must have a working copy of Perl in your executable path.
Open a shell (UNIX) or command (Windows) window.

From your Cadence installation directory, change to share/cdsdoc/bin (UNIX) or share\cdsdoc\bin (Windows).
Start the Perl script:
perl list_PDF.pl
Note: Use the appropriate syntax for your Perl to start the script. For example, ActivePerl for Windows uses a -w option to run scripts: perl -w scriptname.
At the prompt, enter the full path to the directory containing Cadence documents. The default for this directory name is doc. For example:
Enter the full path to the doc directory including doc
/mnt1/cadence/ldv42/doc
The script lists each book's directory name as it reads them all to locate the PDF files. When finished, it writes a file named pdf_alpha.html to the directory you entered above.
To test the results, open doc/pdf_alpha.html in your web browser. You should see a page similar to the one shown below.

The PDF documents are listed alphabetically by document title. Click on any title to open the printable PDF file.

Note: If a dialog asks whether you want to download or display the file, choose display. Later, read Setting Up Browsers and Helper Applications in the CDSDoc Configuration Guide to find out how to set your browser to start Acrobat Reader whenever you click on a link to a PDF file.

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