X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 03:58:00 +0100 (CET) X-X-Sender: igor2 AT igor2priv To: "Girvin Herr (gherrl AT fastmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" X-Debug: to=geda-user AT delorie DOT com from="gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu" From: gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu Subject: Re: [geda-user] PCB 4.1.3 png export acting weird In-Reply-To: <34d4880c-3aa0-26a2-0d02-ab740ccda6be@fastmail.com> Message-ID: References: <34d4880c-3aa0-26a2-0d02-ab740ccda6be AT fastmail DOT com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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