X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <533D51E2.2060307@philippklostermann.de> Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 14:19:46 +0200 From: Philipp Klostermann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] printing from PCB References: <20140402112140 DOT 5df5a754 AT richard-laptop> In-Reply-To: <20140402112140.5df5a754@richard-laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Am 02.04.2014 12:21, schrieb Richard Bown: > Hi, > On the 8th attempt I now have a board ready to print on to a > transparency. > > When printing is there any way of NOT printing the header sheet with > the list of whats there ? > I found I can deselect the top of the board OK, just want to print the > bottom only. > > It would be nice if some how I could add to the printing menu the size > 6X4", or a wee bit bigger, as I'm using a printer with a tray for photo > paper as well. > So I could pre-cut the film to 6x4" and load it from the top tray , > > I see A, B, C & D sizes but not sure what they are, and I'm not sure on > US paper sizes, sri. > The paper guide on the printer tray will open out to 4.5" , so a little > tolerance of size. > > many thanks > This is my first posting to this group, so I first say hello to everyone: Hello all! Until recently I Did it with Postscrip-Export and Import into Corel Draw, which worked fine. But as part of my auto-project-publish I wrote a perl-script for doing this. (I'll wait for the restructuring in the hid-sources before I start modifying the pcb-sources to have it integrated.) Before calling the script you neet to export the pcb in two ways: pcb -x ps --psfile .ps --no-show-legend --no-align-marks --outline --mirror --auto-mirror --media A4 --multi-file --drill-copper .pcb and pcb -x ps --psfile color.ps --no-show-legend --no-align-marks --outline --auto-mirror --fill-page --ps-color --media A4 --multi-file --drill-copper .pcb The script takes the files representing the copper- and mask-layers from the first export and arranges them on as few pages as possible. (Without yet trying to save space by turning) Then the script puts the the two assembly-layers of the second export into either one or two pages, which depends on the size, and adds them to the document. The script ist still under development. The part do do the same with .sch-files is currently in conception and the BOM-inclusion will be on it's way. Many variable names and comments are still in german, but this will change in future versions. The current focus lies on the use of this script in another scrpt, thus the calling of "pcb -x .." is also not part of the script, yet. Also, please excuse the C-like programming style. I'm no perl-monk. It can be found here: http://www.philippklostermann.de/download/perl/compact-pcb-pdf