Board2Pdf is a KiCad Plugin to create good looking pdf files from the board. The outputted pdf is vector based and searchable.
Version 1.8.0 now released! This version is now available in the Plugin and Content Manager.
List of changes:
- Support for cropping the page with pdfCropMargins
- Support for auto-scaling, the board is scaled to fit the page
- Added GUI for the scale by factor function added by Stefan Schwendeler
- Support for transparency (only with PyMuPDF)
- Page nr, total nr of pages and name of template can now be written to a comment in the drawing template (thank you Simon Hobbs!)
- Sheet variable in Drawing Sheet Template is now set to the name of the Board2Pdf template
- Removed the --scale argument from the CLI
- Updated pypdf from 4.2.0 to 5.1.0
- Added script to install the plugin from a cloned repo
- Fixed bugs so that the plugin can now be started from the console (thank you Simon Hobbs!)
Some of the crop and scaling options requires pdfCropMargins to be installed. More details can be found in the Wiki - Install dependencies .
And more information on this release can be found in the Gitlab repo