Then how come _all_ other software runs flawlessly and client engineers tell me the same thing?
For example, the CAD hasn't crashed since I bought it around five years ago. Not once. Orcad Windows versions on the other hand ... well, there's a reason I don't have that.
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Happened: "Hey, Joerg, that's a pretty vase you've drawn there on your screen" ... "Ahm, that's not a vase, it's a fiber-optics part"
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Sure, but is it good to make every decision based on price?
;-)
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Why should it be? I pay good money for good stuff. But only if it is the good stuff and if it is really needed. In this case the lower cost CAD has turned out to behave much more robust than the more expensive CAD and for me that was a nobrainer, really :-)
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Like you I have mostly old reliable stuff... Paint Shop pro v8.10, running on XP pro.
Poor baby! Try adding 4 kids and 8 grand kids ;-) I'd need another
70 years to investigate all the things I'd like to know. ...Jim Thompson
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Performance only as good as the person behind the wheel.
PS hasn't fallen from grace... it's very much alive in the fancy graphical and printing worlds. ...Jim Thompson
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Spice is like a sports car... Performance only as good as the person behind the wheel.
Do you have a symbol for "phut"?
Here ya go :-)
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Nice, but it really should be a TO-3 or at least a TO-220 in the bottom left corner. ;-)
Included on every one of Joerg's schematics :-) ...Jim Thompson
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Spice is like a sports car...
Performance only as good as the person behind the wheel.
This is very unlikely to be a problem with PostScript itself: It's is probably due to not having the actual fonts that the document calls for -- many popular fonts used with PostScript files were copyrighted by Adobe, so while the free PostScript interpreters such as GhostScript do come packaged with some of their own (freely distributable) fonts, sometimes the quality isn't as good or a substitution for an unavailable font is made which isn't very good... and you end up with poor lettering.
You can purchase a copy of the Adobe fonts to get things to look better... or of course purchase the full version of Acrobat, which comes with many of them.
Some early PostScript-compatible (i.e., not licensed from Adobe) printers had this same problem, but they at least had the income stream of selling a product to pay for folks to make better and better fonts, whereas it's all volunteer work on GhostScript.
---Joel
Ok, then I'll have to dig through the feature set of newer versions that I can buy nowadays, to make sure they didn't drop PS-support like so many other programs.
Happens with other formats as well. For example, I was mighty disappointed when Microsoft ditched HPGL support for Word.
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Hi Frank,
You're right. I looked in my latest imported files: I first converted my ps-files with ghostscript to pdf and then imported these with incscape (then saved as svg and opened them in scribus to manipulate. Nice batch-jobs ;-)
It saved a lot of times for me.
Marte
I think I'll just try to find a method of importing the schematics into some common program, Paint Shop or something else, then ditch all the lettering. It's just stuff like the company name that gets messed up. The important parts of the legend and the schematic come through, although somewhat blurry.
HPGL was sooo much nicer. Never blurred, no font issues, it just worked.
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Ask a silly question ;)
Which version of Inkscape should be downloaded for Win2K or XP? The choices are _very_ confusing, plus all that Eunuchs-speak is scary ;-) ...Jim Thompson
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Spice is like a sports car...
Performance only as good as the person behind the wheel.
You're not likely to have unusual fonts on a schematic but, if you do, take note of the font name... you can probably download it from somewhere.
PSP Pro is almost as powerful as Corel Draw at a fraction of the price. And it's easy to learn as long as you don't try fixing photos... that can get pretty intense :-0 ...Jim Thompson
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Spice is like a sports car...
Performance only as good as the person behind the wheel.
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Aaaargh! OrCAD ALERT! OrCAD ALERT! OrCAD ALERT! OrCAD ALERT!
Looks like Corel bought out JASC.
Today's the last day of a sale... BUT! Amazon has it cheaper :-) ...Jim Thompson
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Spice is like a sports car...
Performance only as good as the person behind the wheel.
Well, that would be a nice upside. Making the photo you took of that new prototype look better than it really is. I could also replace this one palm tree that has a dying branch and always ends up in the lab pics, put in a new palm tree from some vacation paradise, or the one from the front yard :-)
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My first visit is always to Purplus, they tend to have a version or two back at hard to beat prices:
No need to always buy the latest because often that ain't the greatest. Like MS-Works where they seem to have broken it after version 6.0. It's weird when you get some software with a PC and then go out and buy an older version so that it becomes more reliable.
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