Re: gEDA-user: A4 Printing

2007-09-11 Thread Andy Peters
On Sep 10, 2007, at 7:10 PM, Greg Cunningham wrote: On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 20:33 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: However, the pdf barfs. Is there a wrap error in your post, or is $ a construct I'm not familiar with? When using pattern rules (wildcards) in Makefiles, there are some variables you

Re: gEDA-user: A4 Printing

2007-09-11 Thread Duncan Drennan
FWIW, there's a good O'Reilly book about creating and using Makefiles: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/make3/index.html You can also just google for make, or refer to the make documentation, http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/. ___ geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: A4 Printing

2007-09-10 Thread Greg Cunningham
On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 17:53 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: Should probably keep the replies on list, so I've re-added the CC Grr. My apologies. I'm used to thunderbird replying to the list. This 'ere evolution doesn't play as nice. Anyway, I am following Duncan's progress. Duncan, after

Re: gEDA-user: A4 Printing

2007-09-10 Thread DJ Delorie
However, the pdf barfs. Is there a wrap error in your post, or is $ a construct I'm not familiar with? When using pattern rules (wildcards) in Makefiles, there are some variables you can use to expand to the part of the filenames that match the wildcards. Example: %.pdf : %.ps Makefile

Re: gEDA-user: A4 Printing

2007-09-10 Thread Larry Doolittle
DJ - On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:33:12PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: %.pdf : %.ps Makefile ps2pdf $ $@ Right. Very powerful especially when you start putting source and object files in different directories with VPATH. I _always_ use makefiles to manage project files. Except ps2pdf

Re: gEDA-user: A4 Printing

2007-09-10 Thread Greg Cunningham
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 20:33 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: However, the pdf barfs. Is there a wrap error in your post, or is $ a construct I'm not familiar with? When using pattern rules (wildcards) in Makefiles, there are some variables you can use to expand to the part of the filenames that

Re: gEDA-user: A4 Printing

2007-09-07 Thread Duncan Drennan
Not sure whether Duncan's problem is similar... Peter, I tried your Makefile snippet, bit didn't get it working,... yet. I was able to output to an A4 postscript file and then convert to PDF using ghostscript (in Win32) without any hassles. I think part of my problem is on the cygwin setup

gEDA-user: A4 Printing

2007-09-07 Thread Greg Cunningham
This is a 2-for-1 question/problem... Being an Oz resident, A4 is the standard 'book-sized printout for me. The postscript output crops the right-hand side of the image by about 1cm. Any tips on where to start? Not sure whether Duncan's problem is similar... Peter, I tried your Makefile snippet,

Re: gEDA-user: A4 Printing

2007-09-07 Thread Peter Clifton
Should probably keep the replies on list, so I've re-added the CC On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 23:00 +1000, Greg Cunningham wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 13:02 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 21:10 +1000, Greg Cunningham wrote: This is a 2-for-1 question/problem... Being

Re: gEDA-user: A4 Printing

2007-09-07 Thread Bert Timmerman
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Peter Clifton Verzonden: vrijdag 7 september 2007 18:53 Aan: gEDA user mailing list Onderwerp: Re: gEDA-user: A4 Printing Should probably keep the replies on list, so I've re-added the CC On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 23:00 +1000, Greg Cunningham wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 13:02