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[Evan Shultz <evan.shultz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Seth!

I didn't find the default template when looking at the code base, but I'm
sure it's there and I just didn't find it. So if things are left alone
hopefully the packager people will automatically include them? Then
hopefully this message thread will make the packagers aware of new
templates.

I could add more wishlist items, but you mentioned some key ones. I believe
it would be best to create a launchpad bug for this so it can be tracked
and doesn't get buried in the mailing list.

The small and large title blocks are both useful, as is having or not
having revision history, so that means at least four templates. But because
the ISO spec defines variations based on page size, for example the number
of subdivisions of the border sides, I do not believe it would be possible
to auto-scale and collapse the number of templates while still strictly
meeting the ISO standard.

The ISO standard only defines A page sizes. I understand your comment about
providing US page sizes but they aren't part of the standard.

Evan

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 10:16 AM Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 11/13/19 9:19 AM, Evan Shultz wrote:
>
> 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!
>
>
> The process for inclusion would be managed by the individual
> distributions.  I assume that they pull from the kicad-templates repository
> by default.
>
> Currently, the extra templates are installed at the same directory level
> as the default template.  This is cluttered and mixes all different kinds
> of templates together.  We should definitely address this.  Simple
> subdirectories for page layout options other than the default should be
> considered in the templates CMake
>
> The wishlist items for the code I see are:
>
> - Adding the Revisions block as an optional item in the layout format
> - Adding support for graphical items referenced to page center
>
> With these two items, we should be able to collapse these templates into a
> single, standard (or two if you wanted the basic 180mm and an alternate
> compressed version for the Title block.
>
> For the templates, if we are adding templates per size, it would be good
> to add standard A/B/C sizes as well.  US KiCad users do not have easy
> access to either A4 paper or (harder) A4 printers.
>
> Best-
> Seth
>
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