color print always has black background

[DJ Delorie]

In libgeda/src/f_print.c look for "print_color_background". The page is unconditionally filled with color (bad) and that color is always black (worse). In my sources, I removed that whole chunk of code (leaving a white page as a starting point) and it works "correctly" for me.

[Peter TB Brett (peter-b)]

Although the code may have changed since this bug was submitted, the background is not "always black" and the page is not "unconditionally filled with color". I have just carefully tested this.

For historical reasons, the 'background' colour map entry is not used when printing; the 'output-background' colour map entry is used instead.

To enable printing in colour, add to your gschemrc file:

  (output-color "enabled")

If you want to change the colour used as a background when printing, add to your gschemrc file:

  (print-color-map '((output-background "#aabbcc")))

where #aabbcc is the 24 bit hexadecimal colour you wish to use (same as in HTML).

If you want to disable printing a background colour entirely:

  (print-color-map '((output-background #f)))

I agree that the default behaviour is confusing. I am going to change the default colour map for colour printing to the light background, which will hopefully be less likely to violate the principle of least surprise.