Re: gEDA-user: gschem command line printing
Sorry for the delay, I've been out of space for a week. I would like to give an answer to those who replied to my message. For Michael Theurl: Thank you for your script. It's quite long, and it's actually just one line in it that caught my interest: gschem -p -o$i.ps -s/usr/share/gEDA/scheme/print.scm $i You see, my question was rather technical: I had tried the same command in my Linux and it did not work, because I took for granted the way it's presented in the actual print.scm file: ;; This file may be used to print gschem schematics from the ;; command line. Typical usage is: ;; ;; gschem -p -o mysch.ps -s /path/to/this/file/print.scm mysch.sch ;; ;; The schematic in mysch.sch will be printed to the file mysch.ps Well, it looks like print.scm is wrong about that, isn't it? There must be no space between -o and its option value, as well as between -s and its option value. Basically the FAQ contradicts the comment in print.scm. Nobody here could tell me this, but luckily for me I read your script and I realized the gschem FAQ actually had the same syntax, only I thought it was some typing mistake. But after reading your script I ran the command with that syntax and to my surprise it worked. So my case is basically solved, thanks to your script reminding me about the FAQ. For Kai-Martin Knaak: Are you working on a Spectrum compatible too? What kind is that? Mine is a computer designed and manufactured in the communist Romania and built in private as a hobby by students in Bucharest for a few years after 1990. Unfortunately the project and the documentation got lost in time like tears in rain and I've decided it's time to give this computer a place in history by publishing all information about it in an organized manner and more than that, by manufacturing 100 pieces of this computer. The name of the computer is CoBra (COmputer BRAsov). So what is it that you are working on? ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: gschem command line printing
CoBra wrote: I'm working on a pretty big project which is essentially a Spectrum compatible computer, which will be published as open source when I finish it. The project is being drawn using gschem and pcb. There are 15 different schematics, each on one A4 page. Sounds like my current project :-) Until recently I got away with printing from the menu in gschem. But now, with 3 different revisions of the computer, which will be developed separately into more versions, the printing seems to take just too much time. I attached a shellscript for command line printing. It usess the print.scm distributed by geda to output all sheets of a hierarchical design. Output format is a single multi page PDF document. The current date is appended to the file name. The script can can deal with a single flat schematics, too. It does not respect multiple files as input, though. This should not be hard to add. Anyway, I'd recommend a master sheet even for projects with no formal hierarchy. This provides an intuitive view on the contents and an additional way to navigate the project. The script needs some tools that should be part of every linux distro: (awk, psmerge and ps2pdf) -- Kai-Martin Knaak Email: k...@familieknaak.de http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x6C0B9F53 not happy with moderation of geda-user schaltplandruck.sh Description: application/shellscript ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: gschem command line printing
Hello Chris, That's sounds great. Maybe i can help you, i wrote a script to export pdfs and handbooks for geda/pcb projects. I Attach you the script. I use Fedora Core 14 with the standart geda-gaf rpms. And it works perfectly. you need ghostscript a project file and the createPCB.sh script example project: - schematics schem1.sch schem2.sch output-name masterboard elements-dir ~/gaf/pcb-elements/using - change the path in the createPCB.sh for the print.scm to your needs. createPCB.sh Description: Binary data run the script ./createPCB.sh pdf and you get an pdf with all outputs. that you can esaylie share or print. hopefully i could help you, just write me if you have any questions. best regards Michael On Jul 12, 2011, at 8:11 AM, CoBra wrote: Hi everybody I'm working on a pretty big project which is essentially a Spectrum compatible computer, which will be published as open source when I finish it. The project is being drawn using gschem and pcb. There are 15 different schematics, each on one A4 page. Until recently I got away with printing from the menu in gschem. But now, with 3 different revisions of the computer, which will be developed separately into more versions, the printing seems to take just too much time. Eventually I tried the command line printing as described in the gschem FAQ, but the problem is that there is no output at all, no .PS files are generated whatsoever. The gschem window pops up for a very short milisecond and disappears (I'm using Linux and KDE) but there is no postscript output. I have 9 different gEDA versions installed in my system (1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.2.1, 1.3.1, 1.4.0, 1.5.0, geda CD Suite (0.0.2), geda-cvs (2008-07-29) and a version installed with Linux (2005-03-13). I used 1.5.0 for my project. When I saw that command line printing is not working in 1.5.0 I tried with 1.4.0 but it still did nothing. my print.scm file is in /opt/geda-1.5.0/share/gEDA/scheme Among other lines, it contains the following: ; filename is specified on the command line (gschem-postscript dummyfilename) As far as I've seen, in all the other geda versions I have, these two lines are identical. But googling for a solution I came across people saying that supposedly there should be another file, gschem-print.scm, which is missing but possibly replaceable by print.scm, and that the 2 lines above should actually be like this: ; filename is specified on the command line (gschem-print dummyfilename) Can anyone point me to a solution here, am I missing an .scm file, am I having the wrong content in print.scm or what seems to be the problem? From gschem I can print either color or b/w with no problem at all, I use customized gschemrc files in each project folder and it's great, the only annoying thing is the command line printing not working. Thank you all in advance Chris ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user -- [] this Email is made of 100% Recyclable elektrons [] url : www.smog.at [] mailto : michael.the...@smog.at [] key: www.smog.at/key ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: gschem command line printing
here is my print.scm - ;; $Id$ ;; ;; This file may be used to print gschem schematics from the ;; command line. Typical usage is: ;; ;; gschem -p -o mysch.ps -s /path/to/this/file/print.scm mysch.sch ;; ;; The schematic in mysch.sch will be printed to the file mysch.ps ;; Uncomment these to override defaults when printing from the command line ;(output-orientation portrait) ;(output-type limits) ;(output-color enabled) ;(output-text ps) ; You need call this after you call any rc file function (gschem-use-rc-values) ; filename is specified on the command line (gschem-postscript dummyfilename) (gschem-exit) - On Jul 12, 2011, at 8:11 AM, CoBra wrote: Hi everybody I'm working on a pretty big project which is essentially a Spectrum compatible computer, which will be published as open source when I finish it. The project is being drawn using gschem and pcb. There are 15 different schematics, each on one A4 page. Until recently I got away with printing from the menu in gschem. But now, with 3 different revisions of the computer, which will be developed separately into more versions, the printing seems to take just too much time. Eventually I tried the command line printing as described in the gschem FAQ, but the problem is that there is no output at all, no .PS files are generated whatsoever. The gschem window pops up for a very short milisecond and disappears (I'm using Linux and KDE) but there is no postscript output. I have 9 different gEDA versions installed in my system (1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.2.1, 1.3.1, 1.4.0, 1.5.0, geda CD Suite (0.0.2), geda-cvs (2008-07-29) and a version installed with Linux (2005-03-13). I used 1.5.0 for my project. When I saw that command line printing is not working in 1.5.0 I tried with 1.4.0 but it still did nothing. my print.scm file is in /opt/geda-1.5.0/share/gEDA/scheme Among other lines, it contains the following: ; filename is specified on the command line (gschem-postscript dummyfilename) As far as I've seen, in all the other geda versions I have, these two lines are identical. But googling for a solution I came across people saying that supposedly there should be another file, gschem-print.scm, which is missing but possibly replaceable by print.scm, and that the 2 lines above should actually be like this: ; filename is specified on the command line (gschem-print dummyfilename) Can anyone point me to a solution here, am I missing an .scm file, am I having the wrong content in print.scm or what seems to be the problem? From gschem I can print either color or b/w with no problem at all, I use customized gschemrc files in each project folder and it's great, the only annoying thing is the command line printing not working. Thank you all in advance Chris ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user -- [] this Email is made of 100% Recyclable elektrons [] url : www.smog.at [] mailto : michael.the...@smog.at [] key: www.smog.at/key ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: gschem command line printing
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:05:22 +0200 Michael Theurl michael.the...@smog.at wrote: Hello Chris, That's sounds great. Maybe i can help you, i wrote a script to export pdfs and handbooks for geda/pcb projects. I Attach you the script. I use Fedora Core 14 with the standart geda-gaf rpms. And it works perfectly. you need ghostscript a project file and the createPCB.sh script example project: - schematics schem1.sch schem2.sch output-name masterboard elements-dir ~/gaf/pcb-elements/using - change the path in the createPCB.sh for the print.scm to your needs. Thanks for posting your createPCB.sh script. I have a question, though: why do you use pcb -x bom to create the BOM instead of using gnetlist on the .sch file? The gnetlist option allows much more detail in the BOM since you can use the 'attribs' file to customize the data and include fields such as “manufacturer_partnum”, “comment”, etc. Is there some benefit to using pcb for the BOM that I am missing? Regards, Colin ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
