Hello, I am unable to print images in the schematic. I have a truth table in some pages added as Bitmap image and they don’t show in the printing, whatever physical printer or virtual/pdf I choose. I am using Windows 11 and KiCAD 6.07. Thanks for your help.
Yes, I tried to print to .pdf, and Export → Drawing to clipboard, they are not working. The preview to print also is not showing the bitmap. Thanks for your help.
I got different results on my system (v6.0.7 on Win10, and I think it’s really a v6.0.7-file with version-string 20211123):
original file (provided by primer101), no changes:
File->Export->Drawing to clipboard works fine, paste into pictureviewer gives expected view
printing works fine with real Brothe printer
printing works fine with virtual Microsoft Print To PDF driver
printing completely doesn’t works with virtual PDF printer: EDocPrintPro (normally my standard pdf-printer, but now not investigated further)
But:
Changing the worksheet-size gives unexpected results!
File–>Page settings–>Size: change from USLetter 8.5"x11" to DIN A4 210mmx297mm
now again try printing/exporting:
export to clipboard is still working fine (contrary to original Op description)
but printing gives a false positioned bitmap! (already in the print-preview-window - sometimes the bitmap overlaps the worksheet, sometimes it’s completely outside of the page)
@jmk / @ekoeck : could you test the changed file again?
Hmm… I can’t say that I recognize any unintentional changes. Print preview looks finde and PDF export as well. If there is still some issue maybe simply file a bug report and let the devs figure out what’s wrong.
The only differences are:
The border is expanded L to R approx. 1cm.
The border is contracted Top to bottom approx. 5mm
The drawing and image are shifted to the left (approx. 1.5cm) so the LH border of the image is now almost in line with the LH edge of the title block.
The position of the drawing with respect to the image has not changed.
Application: KiCad Schematic Editor (64-bit)
Version: (5.99.0-11119-g3269f45776), release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.1.5
libcurl/7.74.0-DEV Schannel zlib/1.2.11
Platform: Windows 10 (build 19043), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
Date: Jun 23 2021 09:00:14
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
EDIT: Looking at my post I realized that somehow running Eeschema in standalone calls and old version (v5.99), opening the correct Eeschema solved my issue
EDIT2: In a real printer, it printed correctly both times US_Letter and A4, but using PDFCreator to generate a PDF it did it correctly only as US_Letter, as A4, the bitmap was shifted out of frame.
If I write “Eeschema” it runs v5.99, if I write “Schematic Editor” the it runs the correct version, that is also my latest version, could it be that as your latest version is v6.99, that is the one that gets run ?