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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes I think that's the plan, just needs someone to sign up to write it :)

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018, 14:00 Andrzej Wolski <awolski.kicad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Cairo have PDF, SVG and Postscript support. I was once wondering if
> GAL/Cairo could be used for printing.
>
> Andrzej
>
> W dniu 2018-02-24 o 19:24, Jon Evans pisze:
>
> Yeah, there (at least) three different dialogs that all present similar
> things (i.e. a list of layers to include, settings, etc):
>
> Export->SVG
> Print
> Plot
>
> The Print code for Export->SVG seems to just use the same SVG plotter, so
> maybe it's just mostly GUI cleanup that is needed.
>
> The main Print code does need an overhaul to use something other than wxDC
> for graphics generation (and perhaps adding some more features to PDF
> export)
>
> -Jon
>
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 1:16 PM, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Plot SVG and Export SVG are different.  The former goes through the Plot
>> code while the later goes through the Print code.
>>
>> Do we need both?  I haven’t a clue.
>>
>> It would be nice to clean this stuff up, if there is in fact a clean way
>> to present it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jeff.
>>
>>
>> On 24 Feb 2018, at 14:54, Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I agree with this! It has always tripped me up when I switch back and
>> forth between kicad and other EDA tools.
>>
>> On Feb 24, 2018 9:31 AM, "Diego Herranz" <diegoherranz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Now that so much work is happening on re-structuring menus, I've
>>> remembered something I have always found weird on pcbnew.
>>>
>>> "Plot", from wihch you can obtain Gerbers is not inside "Fabrication
>>> Outputs", but on its own.
>>> I find it weird to have the drill option inside "Fabrication Outputs"
>>> but not the Gerbers (they are normally needed together and in fact, you can
>>> go to "Drill" from "Plot").
>>>
>>> If "Plot" was Gerber only, I would recommend moving it inside "Fabrication
>>> Outputs" straight away but because it also exports other formats, it's not
>>> so straightforward.
>>>
>>> I think ideally we would have:
>>>
>>> - Fabrication outputs
>>>     - Gerber...
>>>     - Drill
>>>     - ...
>>> - Export
>>>     - STEP
>>>     - PDF...
>>>     - Postcript...
>>>     - DXF...
>>>     - ...
>>>
>>> And I have just noticed SVG can be obtained from "Plot" or the "Export"
>>> submenu. Is it the same?
>>>
>>> What do you guys think? I'm not necessarily suggesting looking into this
>>> before KiCad 5, just wanted to have your view.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Diego
>>>
>>>
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