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Pin numbers for a connector are not showing up on printed schematics.

epenchansky

Recently I was attempting to print some of the schematics for a specific project, but I noticed that the pin numbers for the connectors don't show up on some of the schematics I printed. This was only the case for a few schematics. I've checked the properties of the connectors as they were set up in the library and inspected the settings for the pins, however I did not notice any difference in these settings going from one connector to the next. The pin numbers for the components show up clear as day on my schematic sheets, but the pin numbers don't show up when I try to print the sheets. Has anyone else run into this issue? If so, what was the workaround? Is this a software bug? Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

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    Hi,

    On possibility I can think of is that the connector has an outlined box that is filled.  I have seen sometimes that even if the box fill is set to be transparent, it needs to be moved to be in the background and the other primitives, like pins and pin numbers and text, need to be moved forward.  For me this has ended up printing out the connector or component body background as a solid color while it appears on the screen as all good.

    To do this, open the sch library and look at the rectangle of the part body.  I usually have mine set for draw solid and NOT transparent.  After placing all text, pins and graphics, I then make sure to move the body rectangle to the back.  This is done using the TOOLS > MOVE > SEND TO BACK menu and then when the cursor changes, click on the rectangle.

    You could experiment with the transparent setting also but I usually don't have this checked.

    In the past, this did seem to be inter-related somewhat to the print driver setting also.  I have found that by being careful of the drawing layer orders I don't have any problems with printing.