Re: gEDA-user: Feature requests printout and export

2008-11-23 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 09:55 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: > > foo-frontassembly.ps rather than using the period separator? > > What do other cad packages do? Sorry, I'm not sure. I have seen some output which uses different extensions for each layer though. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering

Re: gEDA-user: Feature requests printout and export

2008-11-23 Thread DJ Delorie
> foo-frontassembly.ps rather than using the period separator? What do other cad packages do? ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Feature requests printout and export

2008-11-23 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 21:33 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: > > * default postscript output name is "foo.ps". With multi page output > > this results in strange filenames like > > "foo.ps.frontassembly.ps".Feature request: multipage should output > > file names like foo.frontassembly.ps by default.

Re: gEDA-user: Feature requests printout and export

2008-11-22 Thread DJ Delorie
> * default postscript output name is "foo.ps". With multi page output > this results in strange filenames like > "foo.ps.frontassembly.ps".Feature request: multipage should output > file names like foo.frontassembly.ps by default. Fixed. ___ g

Re: gEDA-user: Feature requests printout and export

2007-10-29 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:50:09 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > * eps output will print pads and pins pitch black, regardless the pin > color set in preference. Sorry, my notes were wrong on this one: It is *png* output that produces black pins and pads, even though their color is set to some othe

Re: gEDA-user: Feature requests printout and export

2007-10-28 Thread DJ Delorie
settings is loaded before anything else; it overrides the compiled-in defaults. The GUI then applies its own changes, either through a database (gtk uses preferences) or the command line (lesstif and scripts honor X11-style options) or elsewhere (lesstif implicitly uses ~/.Xdefaults, for example)

Re: gEDA-user: Feature requests printout and export

2007-10-28 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:00:27 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > pcb --help > > ps options: > --psfile Postscript output file --drill-helper > Prints a centering target in large drill holes > --align-marks Prints alignment marks on each layer [...] > Optio

Re: gEDA-user: Feature requests printout and export

2007-10-28 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:04:23 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: >> With the gtk-hid-gui there is a ~/.pcb/preferences file. > > The ~/.pcb/settings is not in a hid; it's common to everything. It's > supposed to work for scripting, too, for example. Can you elaborate the "official" difference between the

Re: gEDA-user: Feature requests printout and export

2007-10-17 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi DJ, I understand it's supposed to be common. Notice the difference between the filenames "preference" and "settings" ;-) Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 16:04 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > With the gtk-hid-gui there is a ~/.pcb/preferences file. > > The ~/.pcb/settings

Re: gEDA-user: Feature requests printout and export

2007-10-17 Thread DJ Delorie
> With the gtk-hid-gui there is a ~/.pcb/preferences file. The ~/.pcb/settings is not in a hid; it's common to everything. It's supposed to work for scripting, too, for example. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/

Re: gEDA-user: Feature requests printout and export

2007-10-17 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi DJ, With the gtk-hid-gui there is a ~/.pcb/preferences file. Appending "Media = A4" gives no result for the ps-hid (it remains on the "Letter" format). Reading back the ~/.pcb/preferences gives that the appended ("media = A4") line is removed. Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. On Wed, 2007-10-

Re: gEDA-user: Feature requests printout and export

2007-10-17 Thread DJ Delorie
> * Where are the defaults for ps output set? I always need a4 rather > than letter, multipage output, etc. --- Feature request: Add a print > related preference page. pcb --help ps options: --psfile Postscript output file --drill-helper Prints a centering tar

gEDA-user: Feature requests printout and export

2007-10-17 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
I like to draw the outline of the board to lineout layer as recommended by the wiki. * My fab accepts the resulting gerber layer $NAME.group3.gbr which contains the lineout layer. Still, it would be even better to have a self explanatory layer name and get rid of the holes and vias in this p