[5.99] Cannot find control to print to alternate device

[JohnRob]

PCB Editor (printing board outline and hole locations)

I know I’ve printed to a PDF and / OR dxf in the past. However in the version I’m using I have not been able to find such an option. It seems to want to print to the Windows default “printer”.

So I’m either hallucinating or something has changed.

Do I have a printing option block in my mind?

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Application: KiCad PCB Editor (64-bit)

Version: (5.99.0-11144-gea0c162604), release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.1.5
libcurl/7.74.0-DEV Schannel zlib/1.2.11

Platform: Windows 10 (build 19041), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW

Build Info:
Date: Jun 25 2021 21:00:18
wxWidgets: 3.1.5 (wchar_t,STL containers)
Boost: 1.75.0
OCC: 7.5.0
Curl: 7.74.0-DEV
ngspice: 34
Compiler: Visual C++ 1928 without C++ ABI

Build settings:
KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON

[marekr]

PDF is under Plot in the file menu

Printing is your OS printer options, we can’t insert custom printing there.

[JohnRob]

I found new information.

I changed my OS default printer to PDF.

When I went back to PCB Editor and printed, a box popped up asking me for the printer I wanted to use.
I then change my default back to the original laser. Now the printer option box pops up where it hadn’t before.

[paulvdh]

As marekr already mentioned, there are two different ways generate .pdf files from KiCad.

Pcbnew / File / Print Which uses a “print to File” option which is part of your OS:

On my Linux Box I also have Postscript and .SVG here.

And there is: Pcbnew / File / Plot / Plot Format: PDF

You write you used the “print” path to generate .DXF files, but for me the .DXF option is only available in the “Plot” dialog.

[JohnRob]

Thank you.

It appeared my issue was the first window of your post was not being offered when I attempted to print. This changed once I changed the OS default printer to something else then back.