Separate color profiles for export, plot, printing and screen

[Niki Guldbrand]

Just had an issue that when I was printing out a schematic, the net labels was not being printed, or, rather that was what I thought, until I asked on IRC if there was a hidden option some where that I couldn't find, to turn them on and off.

Some one mentioned that it could be the colors, and I went in and changed the net labels from white to black, just to see, and behold, the text reappeard on my printouts.

So it would be nice to have separate profiles for on screen view and printed view, on my setup, I'm using a dark theme, which isn't compatible with printing, as that would need a lighter theme, right now I have to use a dark color for net labels on a dark background which isn't ideal.

Application: kicad
Version: 6.0.0-rc1-unknown-r13890.89a3d2b45.fc29, debug build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.61.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1 zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.5 libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) libssh/0.8.3/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.33.0
Platform: Linux 4.18.10-300.fc29.x86_64 x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 2.24
    Boost: 1.66.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.61.1
    Compiler: GCC 8.2.1 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

[Anton (antonpupkov)]

A demo video would help to understand the problem.

[Michael Kavanagh (michaelkavanagh)]

This area is due to be looked at in v6, so I am tentatively setting the milestone.

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

KiCad bug tracker has moved to Gitlab. This report is now available here: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/2251