Re: gEDA-user: pcb printing

[Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:43:16 -0500, Dan McMahill wrote:

> GTK provides a printing API.  The quick summary is the printing dialog
> box as well as a page setup dialog box are provided as part of this.
> Under unix-like operating systems it works well with cups, 

The print dialog of gschem does a better job when it comes to PDF output.
Currently, print in pcb does not play nice with CUPS-PDF-Printer. Output 
is always called "_stdin_". It contains only the first page of multi page 
output.


> 1)  is this actually a useful enough feature for people to warrant
> putting any time into it?  One thing we would probably be able to do
> better than now is support layer transparency.

Ack. Transparency when printing is a missing feature.


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