Re: Hierarchical PDF-printing with Mentor "IC Station Schematics"?

Bullshit. They have no idea what programs I even need to do my job.

Horseshit.

An engineer in an IT admin job is a total waste of resources.

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Your prejudice is showing. Then again your personal experience may very well have helped to create it. You may have dealt with as many local incompetent "admins" as i have "engineers". Telephone (vendor) support has long ago gone lowest common denominator "is it plugged in?".

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Please do remember that what they are selling is editing pdf format, not the OCR capabilities.

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Sure, but if they tout OCR in their ads I have come to expect things like that to works at least as good as similar software did 20+ years ago. Or is that asking too much these days?

Imagine you buy a new car today and then discover that it doesn't have power steering or brake assist, things you dad's Studebaker had :-)

Now, THAT is a challenge. (I'm reminded of the "Play Salieri" scene in "Amadeus".)

Have you considered Free Software (FOSS)?

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Why should it be? All it takes is to run the OCR twice, one time with the schematics rotated. If needed then by hand. But no ...

I've looked at Tesseract. However, this is gradually turning into a science project and I might just do the whole IC schematic checking the old-fashioned way, using highlighter, pencil and eraser. Sad, but I guess that's the price we must pay for "modern CAD". Most low cost CAD software does this perfectly yet the high-end stuff doesn't. Pathetic.

I did, JKK. They certainly can't set up a system to do what I need to do since they have *no* idea what I need to do my job. I don't know what I'm going to need next week.

Hogwash, though perhaps that was your best use.

Create what? You aren't making any sense.

Totally irrelevant.

Obviously. ...but we have so many more feechurs to play with.

What, no tail fins?!

I can vouch for this - I'm the local network (LAN) admin here, and the job consumes about ten minutes a month, on average. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

I've been a repair tech who repaired entertainment machines - from pool tables to video games. And the job included phone support for owner/ operators who had a broken machine - it's surprising what you can fix on the phone if you know your elbow from a hole in the ground.

And yes, "Is it plugged in" is always the first question you ask.

I once got a call from a guy who had a dead mahine - he had 115 volts to the fuse block, the fuses were good, but there was no power to the power supply. So I walked him through the standard troubleshooting procedure, and narrowed the problem to the on-off switch. So, he lays down the phone, and in the background I hear the video game power up. He comes back to the phone and says, "Fixed it, and I'm not gonna tell you what the problem was."

So, from that point on, whenever they said, "It's plugged in." I would ask, "is the power switch on?" ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Maybe, but they _do_ have to know how to install any manner of software that says, "see your network administrator."

That was kind of a challenge for me for awhile, when I was the network administrator - I had to figure it out for myself. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

If I need a face to face meeting with my network administrator I go into the bathroom across the hallway. There is a mirror ;-)

That sounds like the ideal amount of time an IT admin should take. From there the instability rises linearly with the time spent.

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This make no sense. There are fairly standard tools every engineer uses, word processor, spreadsheet, database, schematic capture, simulation, layout, tools like mathcad / maxima / maple / matrixX, et cetera. Are = you telling me that your IT people cannot leave that on a machine all the time? Software toolchains can be left on there as well. Are you saying that you regularly go outside all these things on a weekly basis?

An IT support type (in an engineering organization) that cannot install CAD/CAE software is a problem; one that cannot install standard office software is a failure. Can't say that i have met one, have you?

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Definately. Have you not noticed the degradation of office tools into glitz and intractable power tools? See also Capture.

Oh no, the new cars have all the power widgets, but they are no longer reliable. And safety equipment like emergency brakes are now computer mediated and not modulatible.

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Yup :-(

That is why I abandoned Orcad a long time ago and also why I use a lot of legacy software. Older versions are often much better than new ones. If "new" office software cannot OCR stuff that my old Logitech Scanman software could OCR with ease, that's pathetic.

My rule: Look what kind of cars people buy in not so developed countries with unpaved roads and not much service beyond the level of the local blacksmith. Then buy one of those.

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Good God, you can be a dumbass... I don't know if I'm going to need the Xilinx toolchain next week or the Actel. No, they didn't even install the Altera tools on my machine. Go figure.

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Even more proof that your brain is gone. You can't even read.

Catch? You make less and less sense every day.

OTOH, synthesis and PAR has gotten far better (and cheaper;) over the last decade. The problem with OrCAD is that schematic capture has fallen into the dog meat category. No one (on either side of the check) is willing to spend real money on it.

Good luck getting it imported into the US.

The PSpice part crashed on me about as often, if not more. I think that the guys with the pen in hand are certainly writing big enough checks. This software costs as much as a good used car. I expect better for that kind of money. So I am not going to write them any more checks.

I own one. Mitsubishi Montero Sport. It is built on the MightyMax chassis and that has proven itself on the worst roads and under the meanest overload conditions you could imagine. So when I needed a car back then I checked which ones performed well on the Rallye Paris-Dakar, then perused the popularity of the winners in developing countries, went to the dealer, haggled for a couple of hours, done. He inquired several times whether I was aware that this vehicle had no power windows, power locks or power anything. "You sure you want it?" ... "Yeah".

Now don't expect a super smooth ride in one of those. Torsion bars up front, leaf spring in back. Kind of like an army vehicle (and in some not so peaceful areas they are used for that purpose).