Comment 9 for bug 1089027
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| Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw) wrote Re: [Bug 1089027] Re: Printing from eeschema and pcbnew always blank on Ubuntu 12.04 | #9 |
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On 12/12/2012 4:17 AM, Mark Burton wrote:
> Hi Wayne,
>
> Good news, I have solved the problem.
>
> I needed to install libgnomeprint which I did not have before because I
> use KDE. Sorry if that is in the kicad docs, if so, I missed it.
>
> Now, when you print you get a different print dialog.
>
> One thing though, the quality of the text in the eeschema printout
> leaves much to be desired, looks like a font issue.
>
> Anyway, many thanks for your help.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
Mark,
Thanks for doing the leg work on this. I did some testing and found
that printing directly from the Pcbnew print dialog it seems to work
correctly. It's only when printing from the print preview window that I
get blank pages. I'm not sure if libgnomeprint is installed on my
system but I don't think it is because my Linux install is post Gnome 3.
Apparently the wxWidgets packager doesn't know that libgnomeprint is a
dependency or at least a recommendation. It would be nice if you would
get some kind of warning about it. I'm not sure if I should change the
status of this bug report since on the surface it appears to be an issue
with printing on Linux rather than an issue with KiCad.
Wayne