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From:	Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk AT familieknaak DOT de>
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Date:	Mon, 20 Jul 2015 02:10:55 +0200
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Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) 
[via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

> What a first scripting example would you like to see in the
> scripting how to?
> 
Do a custom PDF print of the pcb layout:
  page one: top layer with refdes
  page two: top layer with values
  page three: bottom layer with refdes
  page four: bottom layer with values
all pages: black silk, black outline, pads and pins in dark gray and 
tracks in light gray. Rescale the layout until it fits an A4 paper.

Ok, this may be a bit over the top for a first example. It is what I 
actually need, though. So I whipped up a bash script which calls the 
pcb printing hid with action commands to change sides and switch from 
refdes to value. I had to patch pcb to not exit immediately. It 
assumes that non-interactive hids should never use these commands and 
exits preemptively. Unfortunately, my patch which replaced this 
deliberate exit with a warning did not get accepted by the devs. So I 
habitually apply this patch locally.

Back to a first example for useful scripting. How about multi-copy:
  Copy/paste the current selection multiple times translated by an
  amount given by the user. For bonus points also rotate the selection
  by an angle with each paste action.

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