Re: [Kicad-developers] Fabrication Outputs and Plot

Diego, I merged your patch. Thank you for your contribution to KiCad. Cheers, Wayne On 2/25/2018 3:17 PM, Diego Herranz wrote: > Thanks for your replies. I think there's a consensus that this needs > improving and restructuring, but given your emails, it sounds like a big > task :) > > In

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fabrication Outputs and Plot

Gentle reminder. Thanks, Diego On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 12:16 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > This looks fine to me. Does anyone else have any objections to this > change? > > On 02/25/2018 03:17 PM, Diego Herranz wrote: > >> Thanks for your replies. I think there's a

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fabrication Outputs and Plot

Hi! On 2018-02-27 01:35, Andy Peters wrote: >> There is no plan yet but it has been discussed. > The only downside is that we will have to write our own print handling on > windows and I'm guessing macos. > That's one of the reasons no one has signed up yet because it will be a large >

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fabrication Outputs and Plot

This looks fine to me. Does anyone else have any objections to this change? On 02/25/2018 03:17 PM, Diego Herranz wrote: Thanks for your replies. I think there's a consensus that this needs improving and restructuring, but given your emails, it sounds like a big task :) In the meantime,

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fabrication Outputs and Plot

Thanks for your replies. I think there's a consensus that this needs improving and restructuring, but given your emails, it sounds like a big task :) In the meantime, would you accept the attached patch to change the order in which "Fabrication Outputs" is listed in the menu? Before: Fabrication

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fabrication Outputs and Plot

I'm open to any solution that improves the current situation. This solution seems reasonable as well. I also just noticed that wx 3.1.1 was just released and it looks like there have been a lot of fixes the various device contexts so some of the work may have already been done for us. On

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fabrication Outputs and Plot

I thought the idea was to write a backend for GAL that could render onto a wxDC for printing? It seems wise to use the wxWidgets printing API rather than bypassing it; so we just need to be able to render onto a DC (without using the old XOR tricks from the legacy drawing code) On Sat, Feb 24,

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fabrication Outputs and Plot

On the other hand, if we don’t then we have to keep carrying around a boat-load of Legacy rendering code (because we use that for printing). > On 24 Feb 2018, at 20:16, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > > There is no plan yet but it has been discussed. The only downside is that

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fabrication Outputs and Plot

There is no plan yet but it has been discussed. The only downside is that we will have to write our own print handling on windows and I'm guessing macos. That's one of the reasons no one has signed up yet because it will be a large undertaking. On 02/24/2018 02:02 PM, Jon Evans wrote: Yes

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fabrication Outputs and Plot

Yes I think that's the plan, just needs someone to sign up to write it :) On Sat, Feb 24, 2018, 14:00 Andrzej Wolski wrote: > Cairo have PDF, SVG and Postscript support. I was once wondering if > GAL/Cairo could be used for printing. > > Andrzej > > W dniu 2018-02-24 o

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fabrication Outputs and Plot

Cairo have PDF, SVG and Postscript support. I was once wondering if GAL/Cairo could be used for printing. Andrzej W dniu 2018-02-24 o 19:24, Jon Evans pisze: Yeah, there (at least) three different dialogs that all present similar things (i.e. a list of layers to include, settings, etc):

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fabrication Outputs and Plot

Yeah, there (at least) three different dialogs that all present similar things (i.e. a list of layers to include, settings, etc): Export->SVG Print Plot The Print code for Export->SVG seems to just use the same SVG plotter, so maybe it's just mostly GUI cleanup that is needed. The main Print

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fabrication Outputs and Plot

Plot SVG and Export SVG are different. The former goes through the Plot code while the later goes through the Print code. Do we need both? I haven’t a clue. It would be nice to clean this stuff up, if there is in fact a clean way to present it. Cheers, Jeff. > On 24 Feb 2018, at 14:54,

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fabrication Outputs and Plot

I agree with this! It has always tripped me up when I switch back and forth between kicad and other EDA tools. On Feb 24, 2018 9:31 AM, "Diego Herranz" wrote: > Hi, > > Now that so much work is happening on re-structuring menus, I've > remembered something I have

[Kicad-developers] Fabrication Outputs and Plot

Hi, Now that so much work is happening on re-structuring menus, I've remembered something I have always found weird on pcbnew. "Plot", from wihch you can obtain Gerbers is not inside "Fabrication Outputs", but on its own. I find it weird to have the drill option inside "Fabrication Outputs" but