Re: gEDA-user: Printing PCB layouts.

2006-09-20 Thread DJ Delorie
> So I used scribus for the times I wanted that. It would be great to > have a script to get portions of a .ps page defined to go to > different than original pages, like letter or A4 instead of B size. We've got a partial implementation of page size support in pcb, just no way (yet) to change t

Re: gEDA-user: Printing PCB layouts.

2006-09-20 Thread John Griessen
Please keep us posted about this. I have tried to script some .ps changes with imagemagick, and run into trouble with resolutions too coarse and file sizes getting large. The existing scripts to drive ghostscript, imagemagick, etc. don't ever seem to try to maximize printed size on a page -- t

Re: gEDA-user: Printing PCB layouts.

2006-09-19 Thread Mark Becker
Hello - DJ wrote: > > Edit the .ps file, find the page you want: > >%%Page: 5 >72 72 scale 4.25 5.5 translate > > Then add another translation after it: > >1 0 translate > Ghostscript 8.15.0 ... it looks like its trying to fold it somehow? I'm beginning to think this is a Ghostscript

Re: gEDA-user: Printing PCB layouts.

2006-09-19 Thread Vaughn Treude
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 13:49, John Griessen wrote: > If you want to make a presentable poster of it, > the page layout program scribus is good. > > It will let you scale images, import .ps files and print at some desired > resolution which you choose at printing time. You can add whatever else yo

Re: gEDA-user: Printing PCB layouts.

2006-09-19 Thread DJ Delorie
> Is there someway to offset the image to the right about an inch? Edit the .ps file, find the page you want: %%Page: 5 72 72 scale 4.25 5.5 translate Then add another translation after it: 1 0 translate ___ geda-user mailing list ge

Re: gEDA-user: Printing PCB layouts.

2006-09-19 Thread Dave McGuire
On Sep 19, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Mark Becker wrote: Go back to the postscript export dialog, select "fill-page". Ah. Did that. It's coming out too far off-center to print. The string "Layer topsilk" is at the left-edge and chopped to "yer topsilk". This is just PCB's way of telling you, "hey

Re: gEDA-user: Printing PCB layouts.

2006-09-19 Thread Mark Becker
Hello - DJ Delorie wrote: > > Go back to the postscript export dialog, select "fill-page". > Ah. Did that. It's coming out too far off-center to print. The string "Layer topsilk" is at the left-edge and chopped to "yer topsilk". Is there someway to offset the image to the right about an inch?

Re: gEDA-user: Printing PCB layouts.

2006-09-19 Thread John Griessen
If you want to make a presentable poster of it, the page layout program scribus is good. It will let you scale images, import .ps files and print at some desired resolution which you choose at printing time. You can add whatever else you want to it -- write up, more graphics in boxes with bord

Re: gEDA-user: Printing PCB layouts.

2006-09-19 Thread DJ Delorie
> How can the image be expanded then printed? Go back to the postscript export dialog, select "fill-page". You might want "ps-color" too, then print the assembly pages. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/

gEDA-user: Printing PCB layouts.

2006-09-19 Thread Mark Becker
Hello - I've laid out a 4 x 2 inch board. It's being manufactured. I'd like to make a nice BIG print of the layout (silk, top, and bottom copper). Just saw a note on this a day or so ago... I go into PCB and export a PS file containing the layout. Then I visit gv (GhostView) and select pages.