Re: gEDA-user: Some (newbie?) problems GSpiceUI, PCB

[Ray <coolradar@xxxxxxxxx>]

Last time, When I tried to install gEDA20050820, I also have the bad
experience to install GSpiceUI. I cannot install it from tarball, even
the necessary requirement was fuifilled.

This time I have successfuly installted GSpiceUI after reinstall
Fedora Core4 several times,  but I can not install Gwave anymore. I
hate to reinstall OS again, but I don't whether I have another choice
to make it work.

Anyway, I get the GSpiceUI work this time in my FC4, perhaps you can
check the INSTALL file with GSpiceUI to see what you don't have in you
OS.

I sincerely hope that gEDA can provide one piece of RPM which contain
every components  of the gEDA suite,  which will make the life easier.


On 2/8/06, Richard Rasker <rasker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello fellow *nix & electronics users,
>
> I've been quite a happy PCB user for the past few years, and now I
> decided to install the whole gEDA suite. Most things seem to work OK,
> but several issues crept up which I couldn't resolve so far.
>
> Some information in advance:
>
> gEDA version: cd-rom ISO image, version 20060124
> Linux distribution: Mandriva 2006 PowerPack (kernel 2.6.12-12mdk)
>
> By the way, I didn't actually burn the ISO image to CD-ROM, but simply
> mounted it as a loop device:
>
>  mount -o loop geda-install-20060124.iso [mount_point]
>
> Perhaps this is a useful tip to be included into the INSTALL file?
>
>
> Now about the problems I encountered.
>
> 1. The GSpiceUI build is aborted with the following error message:
>
> /usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandriva-linux-gnu/4.0.1/../../../libwx_gtk2_core-2.6.so: undefined reference to `pango_x_get_context'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [../bin/gspiceui] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/razz/electronics/geda-sources/gspiceui/gspiceui-v0.8.08/src'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> Failure executing command make, ReturnCode = 2
>
>
> Apparently, pango_x_get_context is deprecated and no longer supported.
> Is there a way to work around this problem? I was really looking forward
> to the GUI version of GSpice, and this is a bit of a disappointment.
>
>
> 2. PCB's print command seems quite buggy in PS/EPS format; George M.
> Gallant, Jr. has already reported some of the the problems on this
> mailing list, but so far without a reply or a remedy:
>
> "Printing with "Mirror image" is identical, except for the time stamp,
>  as a straight print. It also leaves slivers of white at thick bevel
>  junctions. Printing with a home-brew print utility works correctly so
>  it is not the printer.
>  I was hoping that the mirror image would just flip one side so that
>  the print would be usable with double sided iron on transfers."
>
> A PS file looks OK on screen, but is printed with straight line endings,
> resulting in the mentioned slivers of white. The EPS format has its own
> problems, but I'm not sure PCB is at fault here: when printed, no paper
> margins are taken into account, so that a few millimeters are missing
> from the left and lower edges. This can be remedied by adding a ten
> millimeter blank edge at the left and the bottom, but that's hardly an
> elegant solution.
>
> Also, I miss the mirror image functionality; I often make single-sided
> pcb's with transparency sheets, and I'd like the toner layer to rest
> directly onto the pcb.
>
> I can render the (E)PS file in the Gimp, and do the mirroring and
> printing from there, but in the desired 1200 dpi quality, the file
> becomes huge, and every manipulation takes forever.
>
> Other image processing tools such as ImageMagick's convert -flip can
> mirror the (E)PS file much faster, but the results can only be described
> as totally horrible.
>
> And finally, after printing an inverted positive/negative image, PCB
> won't print a noninverted image any more until it's shut down and
> restarted.
>
>
> Can someone point me in the direction of a solution for these issues? I
> can live with PCB's printing quirks, but I'd really like to get GSpiceUI
> to work.
>
> Thanks in advance, regards,
>
> Richard Rasker
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