Sometime we use silk (top and bottom) for documentation with line/symbol/text composing some kind of image of specification to user / assembly guy.
Should be useful allow to resize a bunch of selected silk (free) objects (that are not part of a footprint) like used in Eeschema to resize add bitmap images.
Application: Pcbnew
Version: 5.99.0-unknown-c3175b4~86~ubuntu16.04.1, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.2
libcurl/7.47.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2g zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.32 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 4.15.0-65-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
Build date: Oct 3 2019 11:48:52
wxWidgets: 3.0.2 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 2.24
Boost: 1.58.0
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.8.0
Curl: 7.47.0
Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 with C++ ABI 1009
Build settings:
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
KICAD_SPICE=ON
This is dependent on the upcoming properties work being done for v6. Once that is in place we can start adding changing common object properties. This bug report may actually be a duplicate because the properties work should resolve this bug.