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Subject: Re: [geda-user] PCB 4.1.3 png export acting weird
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2019, Girvin Herr (gherrl AT fastmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I have a pc board I designed in PCB 4.1.3 and I am trying to export a PNG file
> with the "top silk", "pins/pads" and "outline" layers only. I turned off all
> layers but these and what I see on the screen is what I want the exported PNG
> file to look like. 

FYI, pcb-rnd has a relative new CAM export support, which introduces an 
optional syntax common to all exporters. With this optional CAM syntax 
you can get any exporter to export one or more specific layers (into one 
or more files), by layer name or layer type.

It works on all exporters, so you don't need to figure an export code 
specific solution each time you want something "unusual" or just want the 
same effect with a different exporter. 

In your case, this means you can simply list the few layers you want, give 
it the file name, and it will do exactly what you want, either from the 
command line or the gui, without having to play around with layer 
visibility.

So another solution is simply loading the same files in pcb-rnd and using 
a cleaner export setup with the CAM syntax. 

More info:

http://repo.hu/projects/pcb-rnd/user/06_feature/cam/

http://repo.hu/cgi-bin/pool.cgi?cmd=show&node=cam


(Side note: you can also set up an "export job" this way in your 
configuration, per system, per user or per project: a named export setup 
that uses one or more exporters to produce different files in different 
formats from different layers. We even have transformations, so you can 
get objects on any layer bloated up or shrunk by a specific amount if your 
process needs that - later on this will have mirror and rotate too.)

HTH,

Igor2

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