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[Evan Shultz <evan.shultz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Seth,

Yes, these templates are sized specifically for certain page sizes as
defined in the ISO specification. And also for particular sheet
orientations. So in Eeschema, the user needs to select the page size and
orientation that match the template in order for the scaling to be proper
and the template to be rendered such that it meets the ISO specification.

Even if manual work is required to properly use these tempates, perhaps it
might be useful to still include them?

In addition, during the review of the templates we discovered limitations
such as what you mentioned above. I can understand if the best solution for
now is only a stopgap, and I'm happy to submit a feature request for an
enhancement for this area of Eeschema, with the details to be sorted out
later as to not derail the main objective of this message.

Thank you!

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 8:56 AM Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 11/13/19 8:30 AM, Evan Shultz wrote:
>
> There have been very nice border and title blocks following
> industry-standard guidelines merged into the official KiCad library at
> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-templates/pull/25. They now reside at
> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-templates/tree/master/Worksheets.
>
> Is there a path to get these worksheets added into KiCad so they appear
> along with the other options in the 'Size' pulldown menu in the Page
> Settings dialog in Eeschema?
>
> I'm not very familiar with the KiCad codebase, but I didn't see where the
> borders/title blocks are located. If it's helpful and relatively easy, I'd
> be delighted to get a few pointers and then prepare a patch to include them.
>
> Thank you!
>
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> Hi Evan-
>
> These do look interesting for some purposes.  The size pulldowns perform
> some automatic adjustments, they don't select new files.  It looks like
> this commit makes a number of new templates that only work for some
> sizings.  Is that correct?
>
> -S
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