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- | ====== Getting good PDF output | + | This page is obsolete. See [[PDF Output |
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- | The most reliable way to get good PDF output from Eeschema under Linux is to first export to PostScript (//File > Plot > Plot PostScript// | + | |
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- | The biggest problems with this are: | + | |
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- | - It’s a lot of typing to get the conversion to happen (the minutia of which you won’t have memorized). | + | |
- | - It leaves you with both a PostScript and a PDF of the document(s), | + | |
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- | To help with this, I use the script below. I drop a copy of it into the root of a KiCad project and edit the '' | + | |
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- | <file bash makepdf> | + | |
- | # | + | |
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- | # DESTRUCTIVELY convert all postscript files | + | |
- | # in working directory to PDF. | + | |
- | # Requires ghostscript. | + | |
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- | # Mithat Konar 2013 (http:// | + | |
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- | OPTIONS=" | + | |
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- | FILES=$(ls -1 *.ps) | + | |
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- | for file in $FILES | + | |
- | do | + | |
- | ps2pdf $OPTIONS $file && rm $file | + | |
- | done</ | + | |
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- | I’ve not tried the script on any PostScript files other than those produced by Eeschema, but I’ve got no reason to think it won’t work on other PS files as well. | + |
kicad/good_pdf_output_from_kicad.1369036416.txt.gz · Last modified: 2013/05/20 07:53 by mithat