How ot take screencapture of waveform output from simulation

• Nov 8, 2006

• #1

ahmad_abdulghany

Advanced Member level 4

Joined

Apr 12, 2005

Messages

1,206

Helped

102

Reputation

206

Reaction score

22

Trophy points

1,318

Location

San Jose, California, USA

Activity points

11,769

cadence awd waveform background color

Hello all,

I use Cadence IC design tools to make some simulations, and i want to capture screen of output waveforms, I could do that using Alt+PrintScreen but this gave me black background,

**broken link removed**​

how to convert that black colour into white (without using invert colours, it give very bad colours )3

I may also need to know how to convert any colour to another colour, i.e. for example, convert white to blue, and red to magenta, or anything like that (Also, don't need to use colour inversion!! please)

I hope that someone tell me how to do with Gimp (i'm using Gimp 1.2 under RH9, and can't get the newer 2.2 version for RH9 sadly!! )

Thanks in advance,
Ahmad,

 

• Nov 8, 2006

• #2

cougar168

Advanced Member level 4

Joined

May 26, 2005

Messages

112

Helped

11

Reputation

22

Reaction score

4

Trophy points

1,298

Location

Silicon Valley => Shanghai

Activity points

1,740

cadence convert awd wavescan -hspice

you can some software to change the background color, say photoshop

 

• Nov 8, 2006

• #3

safwatonline

Advanced Member level 4

Joined

Nov 19, 2005

Messages

1,341

Helped

219

Reputation

438

Reaction score

48

Trophy points

1,328

Location

EGYPT

Activity points

9,038

nop just : file>save as image

 

• Nov 8, 2006

• #4

P

pat_fr

Newbie level 6

Joined

Dec 4, 2005

Messages

11

Helped

1

Reputation

2

Reaction score

0

Trophy points

1,281

Activity points

1,357

Re: How ot take screencapture of waveform output from simula

hardcopy -> file : name.ps (postscript file)

 

• Nov 9, 2006

• #5

DZC

Full Member level 2

Joined

Sep 12, 2006

Messages

149

Helped

13

Reputation

26

Reaction score

5

Trophy points

1,298

Activity points

2,122

I prefer to use some image capture softwares.They are rich in function and thus convenient.

 

• Nov 12, 2006

• #6

R

rehty

Junior Member level 1

Joined

Oct 22, 2005

Messages

19

Helped

0

Reputation

0

Reaction score

0

Trophy points

1,281

Activity points

1,377

Re: How ot take screencapture of waveform output from simula

use HyperSanp to capture waveform and in HyperSanp tools icon,
have conver black to white command

 

• Nov 12, 2006

• #7

H

husseinadel

Full Member level 3

Joined

Jan 25, 2006

Messages

156

Helped

19

Reputation

38

Reaction score

6

Trophy points

1,298

Location

EGYPT,CAIRO

Activity points

2,647

Re: How ot take screencapture of waveform output from simula

safwatonline said:

nop just : file>save as image

Click to expand...

you can edit the graph also, by double clicking on its background, cirves, to have thicker lines or legend or etc.,

 

• Nov 14, 2006

• #8

K

kumard35b

Member level 5

Joined

Oct 5, 2004

Messages

80

Helped

13

Reputation

26

Reaction score

8

Trophy points

1,288

Activity points

455

Re: How ot take screencapture of waveform output from simula

if you are using the unix environment ,you can see one icon called image viewer..in that there is one option called snapshot..you can locate the portion which you need to snapshot .save as filename.gif .then you can change your colour...you can open that file in imageviewer.

 

• Nov 15, 2006

• #9

X

xuel

Advanced Member level 4

Joined

Nov 16, 2004

Messages

101

Helped

16

Reputation

32

Reaction score

10

Trophy points

1,298

Activity points

569

hypersnap and snagit are very convenient capture tools, both can change background color easily.

 

• Nov 15, 2006

• #10

safwatonline

Advanced Member level 4

Joined

Nov 19, 2005

Messages

1,341

Helped

219

Reputation

438

Reaction score

48

Trophy points

1,328

Location

EGYPT

Activity points

9,038

i noted that u r using AWD instead of wavescan , just an advice wavescan is better (at least u can print the plots with white background easily)

 

• Nov 15, 2006

• #11

ahmad_abdulghany

Advanced Member level 4

Joined

Apr 12, 2005

Messages

1,206

Helped

102

Reputation

206

Reaction score

22

Trophy points

1,318

Location

San Jose, California, USA

Activity points

11,769

Re: How ot take screencapture of waveform output from simula

safwatonline said:

i noted that u r using AWD instead of wavescan , just an advice wavescan is better (at least u can print the plots with white background easily)

Click to expand...

How to switch to it?

 

• Nov 15, 2006

• #12

safwatonline

Advanced Member level 4

Joined

Nov 19, 2005

Messages

1,341

Helped

219

Reputation

438

Reaction score

48

Trophy points

1,328

Location

EGYPT

Activity points

9,038

do the reverse of **broken link removed**

 

Last edited by a moderator: Nov 3, 2021

• Nov 15, 2006

• #13

G

gharuda

Member level 3

Joined

May 30, 2006

Messages

67

Helped

12

Reputation

22

Reaction score

5

Trophy points

1,288

Location

Bengaluru

Activity points

1,992

Re: How ot take screencapture of waveform output from simula

use mwsnap it avaiable on net

 

• Nov 16, 2006

• #14

F

flushrat

Full Member level 3

Joined

Jan 25, 2005

Messages

180

Helped

23

Reputation

46

Reaction score

8

Trophy points

1,298

Activity points

1,532

Re: How ot take screencapture of waveform output from simula

ahmad_abdulghany said:

safwatonline said:

i noted that u r using AWD instead of wavescan , just an advice wavescan is better (at least u can print the plots with white background easily)

Click to expand...

How to switch to it?

Click to expand...

Analog Design Environment->session->options->waveform tool: AWD

By the way, I prefer AWD than wavescan, for wavescan is alwayse slower than AWD.