Printing in Colour, all of it in colour

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.

Well I am afraid I have no idea.

Rummaging around I have found settings for a PDF export, but I cannot find any export tool anywhere. I want to export to pdf or some file format that I can bring into 3D CAD (like DXF). I have been trying to print to PDF so maybe the fault is with the PDF printer. If there is a native export to PDF or other technical format then problem, probably solved.

Simon Turner wrote:

 

If they actually paid money for this site design then they made a big mistake, surely it has elements specifically integrated into it for them.

They employ some developers to do custom integrations as well. Whether or not they made the right decision on their software is debatable, only they know how much they paid and how much it costs them to maintain vs how much any other solution might cost. It doesn't really matter though because we have what we have and I can't see that changing any time soon.

Simon Turner wrote:

 

I have never found my way into this site without having to google for it and that is a fail right there.

Really?

Go to https://www.element14.com/

The from the menus at the top choose Resources -> Altium CircuitStudio

yep and if we keep talking long enough this "thread" will become so thin that it will become pointless trying to post so then we would have to break the thread in a thread and reply to my first post to get back to the right width. A system that encourages multiple discussions in one thread while also shutting those threads down...... fail to the power of 2! There are plenty of people offering commercial support and integration of real forum software. But new is best apparently better. The lesson was obviously not learnt from circuit maker, CS should have had a completely dedicated and robust forum, this is a support platform, this is all the support I am getting for my money, it's not just some free forum I can chat about rubbish on.

Simon Turner wrote:

 

The lesson was obviously not learnt from circuit maker, CS should have had a completely dedicated and robust forum, this is a support platform, this is all the support I am getting for my money, it's not just some free forum I can chat about rubbish on.

This is a community site, not a support platform. CS is cheap and as such support is via a community site. If you want real dedicated support, buy Altium Desginer, then you can enjoy forking out more than the cost of CS every year for annual maintenance just to access that support on an ongoing basis.

Simon Turner wrote:

 

yep and if we keep talking long enough this "thread" will become so thin that it will become pointless trying to post so then we would have to break the thread in a thread and reply to my first post to get back to the right width. A system that encourages multiple discussions in one thread while also shutting those threads down...... fail to the power of 2! There are plenty of people offering commercial sup

I've not used a forum yet where this doesn't happen. Exactly the same happens on the EEVBlog forum, that's the nature of forums!

Anyway, you are right, this separate thread has gone on long enough. I hope you find a solution to your initial problem. Good luck.

Sorry but the EEVblog forum does not behave like this, just like many other well established platforms don't either.

I have tried a different PDF printer and now the background comes out, so the problem is how the PDF printer handles the layers of CS schematic. But I still can't find any way of exporting to any useful format.

Oh and if you want to talk support try Proteus, it costs £200 less for the same sort of functionality and granted it is over-complicated and does everything differently it a) works more stably than CS and 2) you can ring up and get dedicated support over the phone. me thinks someone is taking the micky with CS

What? people jump topics and go off on tangents on that forum all the time? Are you talking about something else? What are you referring to when you say thread in a thread?

What do you mean by "What are you referring to when you say thread in a thread?" scroll up and down this page and look at it, we have two independent discussions going on at the same time on this original thread I started, me and you, and me and the other guy, haven't you seen my latest responses to him and further questions ?, two completely different topics and me and you are well off topic so I don't know why you are complaining that much about the EEVblog. In any forum things will go off topic eventually, after the first 3 pages for certain, it's not just the EEVblog that does this, have you ever tried AVR freaks ? they go so off topic that I have never actually had an answer to a question, never.

Ok, I just figured it out, you are talking about the indenting to show where the replies are relating. You are right, EEVBlog doesn't do that but there are loads that do and it does make it easier to follow when people go off on random tangents which they inevitable do.

But if that bothers you you can turn it off in your preferences here: https://www.element14.com/community/user-preferences!input.jspa

Scroll down to Discussion View Style and change it from Threaded to Flat.

Ok, I just figured it out, you are talking about the indenting to show where the replies are relating. You are right, EEVBlog doesn't do that but there are loads that do and it does make it easier to follow when people go off on random tangents which they inevitable do.

But if that bothers you you can turn it off in your preferences here: https://www.element14.com/community/user-preferences!input.jspa

Scroll down to Discussion View Style and change it from Threaded to Flat.

Yes that is what I mean. It actually encourages off topics. Thank you for pointing out the flat option, unfortunately it gets messy switching between the two as people really need to post with the mindset that they are answering a specific post in a subthread or that they are posting in a single thread that may have developed a couple of aspects to it.