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Printing in Colour, all of it in colour

Sparkylabs

I am trying to print to PDF, I have got the print settings to colour by rectangles with text in them and a coloured background just come out as black boxes. My schematic is pointless if i cannot export it in some other format.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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