The problem I've encountered all along, is that, while some Windows printer drivers will process DOS-based print jobs, none of the print-to-PDF utilities will process DOS print jobs. If that's not the case, I'd surely like to know about it!

I've got lots of Windows-based CAE software, naturally. However, I've not found one bit of it that I'd LIKE to use for doing useful work, as it's almost all designed so stupidly around that mouse. Every mouse-click leads to yet another dropdown or popup menu, and, what I once, under DOS, did, in 10 seconds or much less, with one or two keystrokes now takes 2 minutes and 6 levels of menuse with the mouse. Yes, some software provides support for "macro" or "shortcut" keys, most of it works so poorly even with the mouse, that those "shortcuts" are like those phone systems that let you push buttons until you get a dial-tone.

I still prefer the old DOS-based OrCAD, even though I've got the latest "Engineering" package from EMA/Cadence. The old 386+ Schematic Editor/autorouter v1.00 is SO much more capable, powerful, and speedy than the Windows based versions, Allegro and Layout, and it's gridless, does pushaside, autorotate, and autoplacement, etc. Not even v1.2 of the same software had all those features. It's really no wonder that Cadence bought OrCAD in order to quash that product. I've never seen a product, even those costing 100x as much, that will touch it. Even with all the trouble of moving the files from machine to machine in order to have the direct connection to the required peripherals is better than to have to put up with the stupid design of Windows-based tools.

RE