Re: [PROTEL EDA USERS]: Print Priview disappears

["Chris Mogford" <chris.mogford@varianinc.com>]

The page not appearing at all can be caused by a few things:
a  Printer page size too small
b  Board too large, something out of bounds or something else weird
c   Delete .ppc and start a new one.
d   Press the 'show entire document button'

While it is a handy unit the print preview has some pitfalls.
1. Many refreshes are required to ensure you get the display up properly.
   Similar to the zillion presses of the end button required in pcb.
2. Sometimes a simple press of the 'show entire document' button is
required.
   Then it magically appears. Great huh.
3. Why can't it default to 'whole board on page' and a minimum of layers.
    The first time takes forever to appear. I mean forever.
4. Cannot easily select the pcb file you wish to use, you have to get it to
prompt for it.
5. Selecting/deselecting layers is a masterpiece of excessive mouse clicks.


Regards,
Chris Mogford  CAD/CAM Specialist
Varian Australia,
Melbourne, Australia
chris.mogford@varianinc.com
www.varianinc.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Tupa <RTupa@adtron.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list proteledausers
<proteledausers@techservinc.com>
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 1:12 AM
Subject: [PROTEL EDA USERS]: Print Priview disappears


> Running Protel 99SE with the latest updates, go print Preview to setup
> print and the image has disappeared. I can open another Database and
> everything works fine. Closed the Database, did Design Utilities Repair,
> nothing, it is happy. Rebooted the System, nothing. Did View fit
> Document to see if I had something hanging out of bounds to cause
> problems. All layers are visible as expected.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
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> Ron Tupa
> Phoenix, Arizona
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