Re: gEDA-user: pcb printing

[Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:03:38 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:

> And if people are asking about printing, we should consider adding some
> page selection options for printing. 

I really miss the ability to define a local print policy. It should be 
possible to set up some kind of config file with defaults to print a 
number of user defined pages. 

Suggestion: A framework that selects groups of objects to be printed 
according to matching properties. Properties might be layer, type of 
object, or the object name. Each group would have parameters attached 
like color, transparency and flags like "thin draw". Definition of a page 
would include the definition of a viewport and a number of groups printed 
on top of each other. A print job would contain a number of pages.

The config file might be placed in ~/pcb or in the project file. This 
would allow for user defaults and still allow fo project specific 
printing. When I worked with protel95, we routinely used a print 
definition that was tuned to our needs.  


> Currently it prints [probably] way too many pages for most people.

The current set of pages in postscript output is probably only useful for 
those who do their own etching. For the docs a different set would be 
better -- One, that includes pages with values and the corresponding page 
with refdeses displayed.

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