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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@...>]

Alain Mouette wrote:
> FWIW, I disagree on a few items:
> 
>> 1) Remove current print dialog.
> 
> It is not clear to me it it will be replaced or removed... where will I 
> setup number of pages (for one that you mantioned)?

The current dialog will be removed. All of the necessary settings can
be configured using the print configuration dialog or as project file
settings.

>> 6) Uses platform printer dialog to select grey scale or color printing.
> > 2) Lose monochrome printing (black and white) if not available as option
> 
> This is a problem. First because it is often missing. But most of all, 
> it is very importat because of the nature of kicad. Many times I printed 
> layer in black-and-white for particular reasons (usualy when printing 
> only one layer), and color for others.

Practically speaking there is only one layer in EESchema. I could
however force black and white printing when the user selects grey scale
from the printer configuration dialog or add a project setting to give
the user a choice of to force monochrome when grey scale printing is
selected.

> Please, leave this one
> 
>> 3) No direct way to disable printing of the reference frame and title block.
> 
> This one is importante for printing of PCBs. In fact there is an 
> annoying behaviour that could be changed: if I expand the pcb, only the 
> bottom part can be seen, specially if the board is centered.
> 
> Please leave this one too.

This will initially be an EESchema only fix and will have no impact on
printing on PCBNew. Printing in PCBNew is a much more complicated issue
than EESchema since it is often necessary to print PCB layouts actual
size and/or print all the layers on a single page. If my solution
proves beneficial on EESchema then I will take a look at implementing a
similar fix in PCBNew. It would be nice if wxWidgets provided a
convenient way to add a custom tab for application specific settings to
the standard print setup dialog. I tried to do this using the wxPython
demo print sample but was unsuccessful. Maybe I'll give it another try
this weekend.

Wayne

> 
> Thanks,
> Alain