Error importing old .kicad_pcb file into KiCad 8 PCB Editor

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Hi Folks,

I’ve got a .kicad_pcb file that was generated by pcbnew “(5.1.2)-2”. It loads ok into KiCad 7 PCB Editor, but fails to load into KiCad 8 PCB Editor, giving the following error message:

Error loading PCB ‘SOIC28.kicad_pcb’. Expecting ‘font, justify, or hide’ in ‘SOIC28.kicad_pcb’ line 1094, offset 6.

Just before line 1094, is the following text:

  (dimension 33.02 (width 0.15) (layer Dwgs.User)
    (gr_text "33.020 mm" (at 66.675 26.259) (layer Dwgs.User)
      (effects (font (size 1 1) (thickness 0.15)) hide)
    )

If I manually remove the ‘hide’ parameter from this dimension field (and the other dimension fields) it loads ok. Is this a bug in the latest KiCad 8.0.1 release, or am I doing something wrong with the import?

I did try to look on gitlab for an existing bug report, but struggled to find anything. I also struggled to find a changelog for any of the nightlies, so if it is a bug perhaps it has already been fixed?

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Can you try an 8.0 testing build? This may have been fixed already.

If not, can you share the board?

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I’ve just downloaded and installed the latest testing build, version 8.0.1-118-g9a728c37df, but it’s still doing the same.

Copy of the board attached - downloaded from here:

SOIC28.zip (24.9 KB)

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OK, thanks, looks like a different problem. We’ll get it fixed for 8.0.2.

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You guys are awesome and under appreciated.

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