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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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imageSchematic Prints.pdf
  • in reply to rachaelp

    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.

  • in reply to rachaelp

    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.

  • in reply to Sparkylabs

    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.

  • in reply to Sparkylabs

    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.

  • in reply to Sparkylabs

    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

  • in reply to harvie256

    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.

  • in reply to rachaelp

    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.

  • in reply to Sparkylabs

    Yes indeed, a select all and a copy/paste into solid edge draft environment seems to work, although it is as an image, but that is fine for my purposes.