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[Ian Roth <imr2107@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Attached is an updated patch. The need for this is that at the place that I
work, we are to document all board layouts. I use the print function in
pcbnew, and select 1 layer per page since the documentation is to be in
black and white. This works great, except that there is no way to flip to a
page and know what layer you are looking at unless you are already familiar
with the board. This patch makes looking over the documentation easier
since the layer name, ie. F.Cu, B.Cu et cetera is printed in the worksheet.

Please feel free to ask any additional questions.

Ian

On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 8:15 AM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> What it says on the tin. It adds a %L format string to labels in the
> worksheet (title block) that will contain the layer name when printed.
>
> I like this, but I agree with Wayne - having to edit so many files
> because of how the layer name is being passed in is just not good.
> Having that many function parameters in general can get irritating and
> confusing.
>
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 02:02:01PM +0200, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> > I have not tried this patch, but could you be a bit more descriptive of
> > what this patch do for the user and why?
> >
> > Den 08/09/2016 17.09 skrev "Ian Roth" <imr2107@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > > This patch allows for printing layer names in pcbnew using a %L
> formater.
> > > This is helpful when printing 1 layer per page.
> > >
> > > Ian
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