At the screeendump we see a 4 page hierarchical multipage schematic edited on page 3. For the moment I cannot manage to print a singel specific page from the set of 4. Printing all 4 pages ist always fine. The printer dialogue seems already by Ubuntu Linux system and not Kicad. As you see, the radio button “CurrentPage” is greyed out. I can select specific page 3 but nothing happens. With preview, the printer dialogue simply closes. Same with physical printer. This way I am always wasting plenty of paper what is unacceptable if number of pages grow with the project.
But the feature request got not that much user support, despite it was opened already 4 years ago.
workaround (if you really print on physical paper, I have rarely seen that in the last years): print to pdf file, then print single pages from that pdf-file.
Thanks for this hint. Maybe I have to take a look into the sources as more details of printing drive me crazy and produce lots of waste paper.
Setup of valid printer destination inside the page only solved the problem partitially. I can open the page in standalone mode without the project and it will print like expected. Unfortunately, all reference designators add a ? postfix for the unknown instance use. In my case, this is acceptable for the moment as I only have one instance in use.
Further embarassing is something else: My schematic is landscape and its a good idea, to store a landscape/portrait info inside the page. Multi page schematics might print then without problem although if several pages have contents with diffrent formats.
In my case, all pages are landscape. System Ubuntu with HP Laserjet seems not too exotic to be the source of the problems.
In SchematicEditor->File->PageSettings->Orientation is selected with “Landscape” in pulldown menue.
In File->Print->PageSetup->Orientation “landscape” is selected by radiobutton again.
If I go on, the printers system menue appears. There I can select again PageSetup with pulldown menue and the possibilities Portrait, Landscape, ReversePortrait and Reverse Landscape. As the pages are all landscape, of coarse I select landscape again.
What now happens with this tripple redundant landscape setup is printing in portrait. The right third of the schematic is cropped away in this case.
If I use the same setup to open the system preview window, landscape format is used correct. It appears even on the paper with very same setup if I print from system preview window.
As the system preview window cannot set the number of copies to print, I started to try my landscape schematics printing intentionally using false portrait setup. Unfortunately this also does not appear in landscape printing erreonously. It also prints in similar portrait format than the landscape setup. The only diffrence is the image is centered and demagnified to fit the paper borders instead of being cropped.
