Autoplot PDF etc when saving project
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Bug Description
Hey Guys
thanks for the awesome job!
At my company we came up with a feature request, which I think could easily be beneficial to others.
The idea is simply to add an option to automatically replot the PDF whenever the schematic is saved.
It is often necessary to share the project on git with software developers or other team members who only need to consult the schematics, without applying changes.
As they would normally rely on the .pdf provided in the repository, it is particularly important to keep it up-to-date with the .sch document.
Currently this is a manual process which is both time-consuming and prone to being overlooked; by adding this feature the PDF would always reflect the content of the schematics.
I made a quick mockup on how it could look but it is only meant as an idea of how this could be implemented
Cheers
Frank Severinsen
description: | updated |
information type: | Public → Public Security |
information type: | Public Security → Public |
information type: | Public → Public Security |
information type: | Public Security → Public |
tags: | added: starter |
Changed in kicad: | |
assignee: | nobody → Mudit Joshi (joshi-ji) |
Changed in kicad: | |
status: | New → In Progress |
I'm not sure I like this idea. I know for what I do at work, this would be annoying. I would have to clean out the unwanted pdf files from the project folder every time I saved the schematic. The only way I would approve a change like this is if A: it could be disable by the user (default) and B: it could be configured to write the pdf files in a folder other than the current project folder. Hopefully in the not too distant future, we will get the python scripting support implemented for the schematic editor. This feature seems like it would better to implement as a user script.