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Re: Update on Cairo printing?

 

I expect the code to be rather similar, perhaps with some extra steps
such as saving a cairo surface to png, or copying the contents to the
system clipboard.

Cheers,
Orson

On 6/17/19 2:33 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
> Hi Orson,
> 
> Cool. 
> 
> I also noticed that we use the old drawing code to draw a “screen capture” of the current sheet on the clipboard, and to export a PNG of the current footprint.  I presume the Cairo code can handle those cases too?
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff.
> 
> 
>> On 17 Jun 2019, at 07:52, Maciej Suminski <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jeff,
>>
>> Yes, I am on it. There is not much left, so I hope to finish it soon.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Orson
>>
>> On 6/16/19 2:46 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
>>> Is this still the plan?  If so, where are we on it?
>>>
>>> (I’m wondering if/when I can remove all the old eeschema drawing code that’s currently used for printing.)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jeff.
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