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ptc-52079191-Visitor
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October 31, 2013
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Wildfire 4 - JLink - Export Drawing as PDF

  • October 31, 2013
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I've been looking through the api documentation on JLink and can't find anything pertaining to this. I'm trying to export a drawing as a PDF programmatically. I looked for methods exposed in the api to accomplish this but nothing. Did I miss this or is this functionality not possible? I know you can use a trail file.

The intention is to export a batch of drawings to PDFs. Anywhere from a few drawings to a few hundred drawings, all at once. A little help is appreciated!

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
November 1, 2013

Christopher,

just a tip ...

If you can print using J-Link and you know how to use printer configuration files (.pcf), then you can output Postscript file and convert it into PDF using Ghostscript's conversion batch file (ps2pdf.bat).

I used this procedure in the past to enable ProE users to get PDF file from ProE drawing.

Good luck.

Martin Hanak

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huggre1-Visitor
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November 1, 2013

See page 317 in the jlinkug.pdf "Exporting to PDF and U3D"

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ft-21-Visitor
1-Visitor
November 4, 2013

Hello,

CrossManager can do conversions from ProE drawings to PDF and it supports batch conversion : http://www.datakit.com/cad-convertors/proe-creo-parametric-2d-to-pdf-2d/60-73-0.html

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epan1-Visitor
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November 12, 2015

Hi, Christopher Mhley.

Have you ever worked it out? Instead of exporting drawing as pdf, I wonder whether you have tried to convert pdf files to other formats, such as ppt, docs. Or to convert pdf to image formats? As for myself, I am testing the related PDF to PNG converting , PDF to BMP converting , and PDF to JPG converting programs these days. Do you have experience about it? Any suggestion will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Pan

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ddhini1-Visitor
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October 13, 2017
PDFOption MyPdfOption_Launcher = pfcExport.PDFOption_Create();
 MyPdfOption_Launcher.SetOptionType(PDFOptionType.PDFOPT_LAUNCH_VIEWER);
 MyPdfOption_Launcher.SetOptionValue(pfcArgument.CreateBoolArgValue(false)); 
 Myoptions.append(MyPdfOption_Launcher);
 Mypdfexportinstructions.SetOptions(Myoptions);//null is default
//Load Drawing Files....

				
String modelLocation=""+Workingdr+"\\";
String drw_name = ""+drawfiles[i]+".drw";
ModelDescriptor desc1 = pfcModel.ModelDescriptor_Create(ModelType.MDL_DRAWING, drw_name, null);
desc1 = pfcModel.ModelDescriptor_CreateFromFileName(drw_name);
desc1.SetPath (modelLocation);
draw=(Drawing)curSession.RetrieveModelWithOpts(desc1, pfcSession.RetrieveModelOptions_Create());
//Get total number of Sheets..
int nooffiles=draw.GetNumberOfSheets();
for(int no=1;no<=nooffiles;no++)
 {
 draw.SetCurrentSheetNumber(no);
 draw.Display();
 draw.Export(""+draw.GetFullName()+"-"+no+"", Mypdfexportinstructions);
continue;
}
//draw.Export(draw.GetFullName(), Mypdfexportinstructions);

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