EPS HID: no option --as-shown anymore

[KaiMartin]

The regular print dialogue of pcb does not quite produce the output I need for my archive (black/white, four pages -- top/bottom, refdes/value, all in one PDF). So I whipped up a script to do the job for me. At its heart, pcb gets called along these lines:

$PCB -x eps \
  --action-string 'DISPLAY(NameOnPCB)' \
  --element-color '#000000' \
  --pin-color '#cccccc' \
  --layer-color-1 '#cccccc' \
  --layer-color-2 '#dddddd' \
  --layer-color-3 '#eeeeee' \
  --as-shown \
  --only-visible \
  --layer-stack "outline,comment,elements,top" \
  --eps-file $TMPDIR/toprefdes.eps \
  $PCBFILE

This worked for me since about 2011. However, since I upgraded to pcb 4.02 the application exits immediately with
          unrecognized option: --as-shown
Apparently this option was removed in some revision. The option is needed to make the --layer-color options apply to the print. Without --as-shown objects are colored like they would on screen.

I see two alternative ways to resolve:
a) reconstitute the option --as-shown
b) let the color options on the command line override the settings loaded from a color file.

---<)kaimartin(>---

[Chad Parker (parker-charles)]

I think that the color settings on the command line should always override the default color settings. If that's not happening, then it's definitely a bug. You shouldn't have to specify --as-shown for that to happen... I don't think that is the purpose of that option.

The --as-shown option was not removed, it was renamed --screen-layer-order in pcb 4.0.0 in order to clarify what the option is actually supposed to do.

[KaiMartin (kmk-familieknaak)]

Thank you for pointing me to "--screen-layer-order". Now my print script works with pcb 4.1 as intended.
Colour settings on the command line do indeed always override the default colours. However, the options --mirror and --layer-stack only apply properly if --screen-layer-order is in place. If I skip this option, the command seems to always print all available layers. Since I gave explicit b/w colour only for some layers, the print contained coloured lines. This confused me into thinking --layer-color-* does not override.

IMHO, the print HIDs should not require --screen-layer-order to make --mirror and --layer-stack work. This made me scratch my head when I assembled my print scripts.

Thank you for taking care of these bug reports,

---<)kaimartin(>---

[Chad Parker (parker-charles)]

Again, sorry for the delay, I didn't get subscribed. I'm not sure why... I didn't used to have to do that explicitly.

Anyway, I agree that --mirror should not require --screen-layer-order. I'm not sure exactly what the --layer-stack option is supposed to do, but I trust that you're also correct about that. Could you please file those as a new bug report, and if possible attach an example image and minimal board?