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.

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.

Simon Turner wrote:

 

...... 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.

What? Not once have I complained about EEVBlog, I am on that forum and like it! I only pointed out that it's the nature of forums to go off topic!

Anyway, you are right, this is well off topic. Again, I wish you luck with your original issue. Bye.

True the export options are limited, at the end of the day the Schematic entry is really a tool getting a netlist into the PCB editor.

However, while you can't export it into a vector format, you can actually copy and paste it into one... Yeah crazy isn't it.

So I use Adobe Illustrator, if I select all, copy then paste in Illustrator I have everything except the title box and border perfectly.  Maybe that'll work in you CAD package (doesn't seem to work in F360).  Don't know if that helps you or not.

Just as an FYI, it looks like there are support phone numbers and dedicated support email addresses.

Go here: http://www.circuitstudio.com/contact-us

Or here: http://www.circuitstudio.com/circuitstudio-support

I'm not a CS user so I don't know how good the support via these avenues is.

Best Regards,

Rachael

Well technically speaking there are no export options for the schematic, all you can do is print and if you have a software printer you can use it to presumably strip the raw information and bang it into a new format. I'll have to try the copy and paste. Unfortunately I am in a situation where the company mostly works in 3D CAD and they want all of the design data in one file or at least I'd have to recreate the borders and everything in CS to look the same.

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.

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.