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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know why but stuff in the plot dialog in pcbnew got broken. For
example the DXF line/stroke/fill option is grayed but still takes the
previous value (should be enabled since last time I worked on it DXF
handled all the modes).

Any reason for that?

Let's review the options:
- Gerber:
  Seems fine to me, can't mirror/negative, can use the aux axis, can't
  do drill marks, scale is fixed 1:1, plot mode always filled, default
  line adjustable (question: is the default line still in use? IIRC it
  was only used for the sheet border before pl-editor); and of course
  the custom gerber options;

- Postscript: can do everything except aux axis (since PS is 'page'
  based); seems fine to me;

- PDF: should get the same option of postscript IMHO (except maybe the
  custom postscript scaling); however scaling and plot mode get grayed
  and forced to 1:1/filled (why that?)

- SVG: can't really say since I don't know that driver's capabilities...
  but maybe changing the plot mode could be useful?

- DXF: doesn't handle mirror/negative (correctly); scaling is fixed to
  1:1 (makes a sense); plot mode is grayed but *not* forced (should
  handle all the modes);

- HPGL can do everything except negative and aux axis; seems fine for
  me;

Also unrelated but the text line display mode maybe is not working
correctly: that could be a bug in my branch, I'm waiting for the stock
build to compile to confirm it. And the 'show page limit' starts always
as 'no' in pcbnew and doesn't get saved... (well, actually, not many
people cares about the page limit:P)

Please tell me if there something wrong in this.

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Lorenzo Marcantonio
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