Printing in Colour, all of it in colour

Ok.  This is a relatively small problem but a problem nonetheless.  You will need to find the file *.outjob and open it with a text editor.  I use Notepad++.  In this file there are numerical output types.  Find the ones that you want to change the color.  For example, the schematic prints are always black and white.  Where it says "OutputType2=Schematic Print", look for the line starting with "PageOptions2=".  Follow the line until you find PrintKind=1.  Change the 1 to 0 and save it.  Now your schematics will print in color.

This is stupid.  It should be changed within the program itself.  There are other problems.  I used Altium quite extensively and I was always able to change things in the program.  I like being able to see the top and bottom layers in the 3D prints.  But CS doesn't allow two outputs to be made into a PDF.  So to fix this, I generate outputs using the bottom view.  Then I save a copy of the *.outjob file.  Then I generate outputs using the top view.  Then I edit the file by adding the bottom view to the file and renumber all of the output types so that they are in the order I want.  For example:

OutputType2=Schematic Print

OutputType3=PCB Print

OutputType4=PCB 3D Print (top)

OutputType5=PCB 3D Print (bottom)

OutputType6=Gerber

etc.

No it's not this simple. The schematic itself came out in colour once I chose the colour option, The problem is that transparent backgrounds which are all of the black boxes in my attached PDF are coming out as solid black instead of transparent allowing the text to show through.

Can you post your .sch file?  I've never had problems with that sort of thing before so it must be something in how it's layered.

Attached is the schematic file. I have modified the library so that the background to the parts is taken out allowing the text to show.

Attached is the schematic file. I have modified the library so that the background to the parts is taken out allowing the text to show. Well the schematic would have been attached but this mornonic non forum won't allow file for mats from the software it claims to support. What a joke!

Simon Turner wrote:

 

Well the schematic would have been attached but this mornonic non forum won't allow file for mats from the software it claims to support. What a joke!

Really? You couldn't just zip it and post it? Rather than help people help you you chose to have a rant instead?

This forum supports an entire community, not just Circuit Studio and is actually pretty good. Yeah it can be a little clunky in places but it generally works.

I hadn't thought of that and when the attach a document  tool gives you a sense of security as it lists a small list of files that you can't attach that don't include the format you want to attach then find it's actually forbidden even though it's native to the software this whole "forum" is about. My pop is at element14 and the poor excuse for a platform this is not the users, I only post here in the hope element14 see the bugs that need fixing otherwise I'd post in more sensible places like the EEVblog. There are established forum softwares out there for a reason, but no people like farnell or whatever they call themselves today want to make sure their corporate image is so ingrained that we get this poor excuse for a forum platform that they dreamt up themselves.

The sch file is blank...

Hi Simon,

Now you've posted the zipped version of your schematic, hopefully somebody will be able to help you.

Simon Turner wrote:

 

I hadn't thought of that and when the attach a document tool gives you a sense of security as it lists a small list of files that you can't attach that don't include the format you want to attach then find it's actually forbidden even though it's native to the software this whole "forum" is about.

This forum isn't all about Circuit Studio, it covers a vast array of topics of which CS is just a tiny part. If they listed every single file type they don't support it would be an exceedingly long list and nobody would bother reading it.

Simon Turner wrote:

 

My pop is at element14 and the poor excuse for a platform this is not the users, I only post here in the hope element14 see the bugs that need fixing otherwise I'd post in more sensible places like the EEVblog.

My point is, having a rant like you did won't make things any better, and doesn't show you in a good light or encourage people to want to listen to your viewpoint or try to help you. Criticism is fine, just do it in a way that doesn't make you look bad. I agree EEVBlog is a good forum, and is a good advert for Dave and his YouTube blogger business but I can see why a large corporation would want something that looked more modern. I'm not convinced it would be easy to extend the forum software they use there to cover all the features this forum supports and give the look and feel they want for their corporate image and I suspect the developer cost in maintaining it would end up being huge.

Simon Turner wrote:

 

There are established forum softwares out there for a reason, but no people like farnell or whatever they call themselves today want to make sure their corporate image is so ingrained that we get this poor excuse for a forum platform that they dreamt up themselves.

Element14 didn't dream up this forum, they bought an off the shelf solution: https://www.jivesoftware.com/products/jive-x/

Best Regards,

Rachael

could it be because you don't have the library ?