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Subject: Re: [geda-user] gaf export --layout does not allow an argument
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Confirmed it is a bug.
line 890 of gaf/export,c should read:   {"layout", required_argument,
NULL, 'l'},

The short version doesn't have the problem.

Girvin: until it is fixed use -l instead of --layout
Glenn

Girvin Herr (gherrl AT fastmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> gaf version 1.10.2 (g5a69d90) under Slackware Linux 14.2 (32-bit
> k4.4.240).
>
> I am using "gaf export" as one step to convert some of my .sch files
> to dxf for qcad. The B-size (11x17) option in my script produces a
> portrait output when I need landscape, so I tried using
> "--layout=landscape" as an argument to "gaf export" but it responds
> with an error:
>
>     export: option '--layout' doesn't allow an argument
>
> The help ("gaf export --help") says:
>
>       -l, --layout=ORIENT    page orientation
>
> The gaf manpage says:
>
>        -l, --layout=(auto | landscape | portrait)
>                When  using  a paper size, set the orientation of the
> output.  If `auto' layout is
>                used, the orientation that best fits the drawing will
> be used.
>
> Bug? Is this argument position dependent? I have it at the end of the
> arguments, just before the input file spec. Here is my script line for
> gaf:
>
> PSIZE="na_ledger"
>
> PLAYOUT="--layout=landscape"
>
> gaf export -o ${TEMPFILE} -f ps --paper=${PSIZE} --no-color ${PLAYOUT}
> ${INFILE} || exit
>
> To be complete, gaf is converting to PostScript and that file is
> subsequently input to pstoedit to convert the PostScript file to dxf.
>
> Thanks.
> Girvin
>
>
>