Re: gEDA-user: Printing PCB Layouts from the Command-Line

[John Luciani <jluciani@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the reply.

I will look for this feature in a future release. 

(* jcl *)

On 5/17/05, Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 03:18:05PM -0400, John Luciani wrote:
> > I am producing some documentation and it would be convenient to be able to
> > print out postscript files containing PCB layouts from within a
> > Makefile or shell script.
> >
> > Does anyone have a PCB script that will plot the various layers from
> > the command-line?
> 
> no.  PCB almost has everything you need, but not quite.  You can specify
> a file on the pcb command line containing actions to execute as soon as
> it starts up.  Whats missing is PCB currently doesn't have an action which
> lets you set up all the hardcopy options and then actually execute the
> hardcopy.  All you can do currently is bring up the hardcopy dialog box.
> 
> It shouldn't be hard to add and it's something I'd like to see.  In fact
> this is a large part of why the execute actions from a file feature
> exists.  However, finishing that up is lower on my list behind a couple
> of items I really want to fix ASAP.
> 
> -Dan
> 
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