As far as i know there is also the problem that the currently used render option is no longer supported even in the old legacy renderer (gtk2 vs gtk3 changes)
GTK 3 itself now uses cairo it seems (So the same renderer as the modern canvas in fallback mode.)
I am however uncertain about that detail. Might be that i remember a mailing conversation a bit wrong here.
And as we all know: Gtk2 is not really supported on many platforms right now. (After all we get 5.1 because of that.)
For doccumentation my task never was to get a picture like PCB will look but to get a readable picture showing the PCB and being printable on B&W laset printer.
To get it I am using File|Export|SVG (changing colours before).
I donât know why my picture lost the scale. It is png and when opened I see it correctly, but here not.
Sorry, but I donât know what are you speaking about. So not âwe allâ 
The pcbdraw script available at https://github.com/yaqwsx/PcbDraw might be worth investigating of you are needing to produce realistic looking output documentation. You can optionally include the components but that seems like quite a lot of extra work.
The forum seems to have its own mind here. (Tried to play with html directly but it still overwrites it with its own wrong dimensions. It seems it simply limits the view to 500px but it keeps the width the same as in the original image. For the future rotation such an image 90 degree would help. But you have the dimension text rotated differently to the reference texts.)
Now I see here my pcb in right scale but only a part of it.
It is my first and last KiCad PCB (made when 4.0.7 was last stable but now exported to SVG from before 5.1 nightly as there were some colour errors not allowing to get such picture).
In Protel before makeing doccumentation I had to position and rotate each text. In KiCad I noticed that element references and values are automatically rotated to be in one of two directions.
Noticed this I assumed that dimension text would behave the same and didnât checked if I have to define dimension starting from top or bottom. Now it is old enough to not modify it.
Agreed, the aspect ratio of your board picture is off while inline. But click on the picture and it pops up with the correct aspect ratio.
It seems like there are others that think being able to drag the layers in the Layers Window into the desired stacking order is useful for the design process.
Is (has) someone going to submit this as an enhancement request for a future release? (I wouldnât know how to do this or write up the request such that it makes sense due to my lack of experience with KiCad and the forum.)
If someone does submit this as a request, Iâm in favor of it. However, I think it needs to have a quick way (Button or Menu Option) that returns the stacking order to the default.
Adjusting the Opacity to see through layers also lowers the contrast on the layer youâre working on.
As a hack you can increase the saturation of the half transparent layers to increase the contrast again.
I tried it out of curiousity, but it actually increases clarity enough to post it here.
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