Even when “Do not show filled areas” is selected, they are included in print.
(This thread here, at the end, suggests this used to not be: Printing without copper pour and on white background)
“Version: (5.1.9)-1, release build”
As explained in one of the comments in that thread you could unfill zones before printing and refill again or (in v5.99) “undo” the unfill action.
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Yeah, the point of my post is that unfilling doesn’t work (area fills still print). Deleting and undoing the delete will work. But that’s not very pretty, is it. I just thought I’d bring it up, in case it was a bug or oversight or if another method that I didn’t find had replaced the functionality.
In v5.99, the unstable development version, it’s possible to hide zones in the Appearance panel -> Objects and then choose “Print according to objects tab of appearance manager”.
I think you are confusing “unfilling” with hiding zone fills. Unfilling is performed by shortcut ctrl + b
Ah that is great I didn’t know that was there. 
Qbort: I did indeed confuse this, thank you! I mean, I am still confused, but that’s probably ok.
Eelik: Thanks, only where this appearance panel is supposed to be I have a Layers Manager. Not sure how to show Appearance Panel.
@Darkg it is only available in the v5.99 nightlies (available here for windows: https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/index.html?prefix=windows/nightly/)
Cool, I actually thought I “was on” the nightlies; I chose it and have been seeing warning popups upon launching the program. But I admittedly don’t understand how this works.
Maybe you’re using the Testing Builds of the 5.1 version. The Nightly Builds of V5.99 (which will become V6) is quite different.
I had things confused indeed. I use an ordinary version of KiCad / Pcbnew! Somehow I fundamentally mixed things up thinking of another software altogether. Sorry about that. Well, I learned a couple of useful things, so all’s well that ends well. Thank you.
So if I understand well there is no way to make a print preview of ONLY the tracks but without the fills?
Using 5.99 on Mac and could not find an elegant & straitforward way to achieve this. Even with “Print according to objects tab of appearance manager”. You know this would be an easy way of quickly printing such a thing without the “clutter” of the fill zones and pass this to the colleagues for their comments on the routing.
But I may have missed something.
Jacques.
Did you follow Qbort’s screenshots above? Hide zones, print using object visibility. Works for me in the latest up to date 5.99.
EDIT: see especially the visibility “eye” icon in the Objects tab’s Zones line. Hiding it in another way doesn’t affect printing.
Yes I did follow exactly like Qbort proposed!
see attached pics
Below you will find my version info, you will see that it is a version compiled for an “old” mac version 10.13.6 but this works fine AND I know that this OS version is not supported BUT this is a shame and I understand the reasons but it is still a shame!
Application: KiCad PCB Editor
Version: 5.99.0-unknown, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.54.0 LibreSSL/2.0.20 zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.24.0
Platform: macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6 (Build 17G14042), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac
Build Info:
Date: Apr 30 2021 18:08:26
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,STL containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.75.0
OCC: 7.5.1
Curl: 7.54.0
ngspice: 31
Compiler: Clang 10.0.1 with C++ ABI 1002
Build date seems to be old, your version is ~3 months old, so please update.
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