Re: gEDA-user: pcb flip-sides

[Harry Eaton <bumpelo@xxxxxxxxx>]

>> Can you confirm that version still works as you wanted?
>
> It does -- sort of.
>
> The command
>
> pcb -x eps --action-string 'DISPLAY(Value)' --eps-file foo.eps bar.pcb
>
> does indeed output a layout with values displayed, even if the last saved
> version of pcb showed refdeses.
>
> However, not all actions have the expected effect with the export eps
> export HID. For example,
>        --action-string 'SwapSides()'
> does not seem to change the output in any way. This particular action
> string option works fine if I present it to the GTK HID. My version of
> the patch showed the same room for improvement. Does the action itself
> know whether or not the current HID is a GUI?

You need to use a "V" argument, i.e. SwapSides(V).
With no argument, the lesstif gui does an x-ray view, effectively only
altering the layer stackup. The lesstiff gui supports 4 ways to
SwapSides. The GTK hid should support them as well, but it doesn't.

h.


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