plot to pdf creates a poorly named Title

Bug #1656956 reported by samuel-eli dzegede
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
KiCad
Fix Released
Low
Robbert Lagerweij

Bug Description

when plotting to PDF, the file created has the path as the Title. this is clearly seen when opened in Chrome browser and can be view in Adobe Reader via File->Properties->Title

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Chris Pavlina (pavlina-chris) wrote :

The project name when plotting all pages, or the sheet name when plotting one page, would probably be a better title.

Changed in kicad:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
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Robbert Lagerweij (rlagerweij) wrote :

Here is a patch to address this issue.

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KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor) wrote :

Fixed in revision 550a1ea4d615966c545cf522ad4fd4f32f17b318
https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/patch/?id=550a1ea4d615966c545cf522ad4fd4f32f17b318

Changed in kicad:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
assignee: nobody → Robbert Lagerweij (rlagerweij)
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Chris Pavlina (pavlina-chris) wrote :

Thank you for your contribution. I merged it with a minor coding style policy fix:

- if ( title.IsEmpty() )
+ if( title.IsEmpty() )

Changed in kicad:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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