Re: Title Box

At 10:53 AM 10/3/2006, you wrote:
>Steven,
>
>I have been spending some time trying to get hard copy of the 
>schematic for documentation purpose in version 8.00. So far my 
>findings are as below;
>
>- The frame and title box do not print out.
>- 'Plot Date In Corner' Option in Preference does not work.
>- When only 'Title Box'  is selected without 'Frame', the title box 
>is locate in the center of the schematic and can not be moved to the 
>corner. (Can it be done in Electric?)
>
>For me (also some designers), the third might be most important. For 
>the good quality schematic printing, some (most?) designers prefer 
>not to have the frame because it occupies space and tends to make 
>the contents (circuits) printed out smaller.  Previously in a 
>commercial tool environment, I used to create a customized cell for 
>the title box where 'company name', 'library name', 'cell name', 
>and  'time' are filled up from the internal data. Can it be done in Electric?
>
>I would appreciate your shedding some light on this matter.

The "Plot Date In Corner" option applies only to PostScript 
output.  Its location in the Printing Preferences dialog is confusing 
and will be fixed in future releases.

The Title Box always appears in a constant location and cannot be 
moved (because it is not a real object...just added graphics).  You 
have to move your circuitry away from it to make the two distinct.

As far as printing the frame and title box, I will have to 
investigate further.  In the meantime, try exporting PostScript and 
printing that.

    -Steven Rubin