KiCad Question

Steveg · Joined: Apr 23, 2015 Posts: 184 Location: Perth, Australia

Hi People,
I noticed at least a couple of people here use KiCad so I decided to try it. It works acceptably well but I'm having trouble getting an image that I can post here. I have discovered Plot to Clipboard but the annotations are too small to read in the image. Any suggestions please?

elektrouwe · Joined: May 27, 2012 Posts: 149 Location: Germany

yes, plot to clipboard is not really useful. I use 2 helpers on my WIN7 PC:
PDFcreator to generate nice vector graphic PDFs For small schemos or details I zoom the schematic as much as possible then use the print key and paste the screen dump into IRFANVIEW, where I crop the part I want and print it with the built in autoscaling.

synaesthesia · Posted: Tue May 05, 2015 12:31 am Post subject:

To capture a schematic zoom in as much as possible and then use the Snipping Tool that comes with Windows since Vista (/windows/system32/SnippingTool.exe).
For documentation and layouts, I use CutePDF Writer to print directly to a PDF file.

Steveg · Joined: Apr 23, 2015 Posts: 184 Location: Perth, Australia

D'OH! I cant believe that at my age I didn't think of taking a screen print. Thanks elektrouwe and synaesthesia.

richardc64 · Posted: Tue May 05, 2015 6:11 am Post subject:

synaesthesia · Posted: Tue May 05, 2015 10:02 am Post subject:

Welcome. One of the first things I do with a brand new installation is cleaning out all the "unnecessary" stuff. So I figured others might do that as well and would appreciate a pointer to this little gem. Smile