Re: Board Design



On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:06:01 -0700, Jim Thompson
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On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:12:32 -0500, Spehro Pefhany
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On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:04:09 -0700, Jim Thompson
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On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:43:37 -0800 (PST), JeffM <jeffm_@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:
I no longer do PowerPoint.
I discovered that I can do the same thing with Adobe PDF's,
but much nicer...
descend and back-out of hierarchical schematics with ease.

Has this always been available in PDF?

I don't know.

At what version did you become aware of this?

Acrobat v4

Makes for really nice presentations... the audience always asks
questions requiring going back to a previous view... in a schematic
stack PDF Forms shine!

...Jim Thompson

So you manually link the higher levels in the hierarchy to the lower
levels?
Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

Yes. I just superimpose an invisible form block over a schematic
block such that clicking descends into the hierarchy and vice versa.

As Joerg opines later, the schematic capture already does that, you
just need to add that function to your PDF "stack".

...Jim Thompson

Thanks. I'll give it a try.

BTW, is there any free tool that allows that kind of thing?
Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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